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Top 15 Robert MacNeil Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert MacNeil Quote: “Wordstruck is exactly what I was – and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.”

1. “Wordstruck is exactly what I was – and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.”

2. “Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.”

3. “Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “Parents can plant magic in a child’s mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.”

4. “Parents can plant magic in a child’s mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.”

5. “You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “I’m happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it’s necessary.”

6. “I’m happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it’s necessary.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we’ll go back there this summer.”

7. “We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we’ll go back there this summer.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to pass your enthusiasm to a child. Find a child and read to it often the things you admire, not being afraid to read the classics.”

8. “If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to pass your enthusiasm to a child. Find a child and read to it often the things you admire, not being afraid to read the classics.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.”

9. “I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “I never wanted to be a pundit.”

10. “I never wanted to be a pundit.”

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Robert MacNeil Quote: “I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can’t think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.”

11. “I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can’t think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America’s closest friends. That America can’t be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?”

12. “Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America’s closest friends. That America can’t be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.”

13. “Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “And I’m in favor of that because I have a gay son, who’s a very successful theater designer.”

14. “And I’m in favor of that because I have a gay son, who’s a very successful theater designer.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.”

15. “Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.”

16. “The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.”

— Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil Quote: “After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.”

17. “After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.”

— Robert MacNeil

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