Connie Chung Quotes

• As the youngest, I wanted to be my father’s son and perpetuate the family name.

  Connie Chung

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  Tags in Perpetuate, Name

• But, you know, sometimes – many – they all understand. That’s the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it’s the best thing for me to do.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Understand, Decided, Happy

• For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now – that doesn’t quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I’m not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Think, Instance, Miserable

• I don’t know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Executives, Network

• I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Translate

• I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Approach

• I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Remember, Forgotten

• I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren’t. And it’s just not – there is no equality there.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Equality

• I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Wonderful, Opportunities

• I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Wonderful, Wanted

• I was just going at this career – boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God – I forgot to get married!

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Career, Sudden, Married

• Just about any story we think about doing, whether we’ve read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth – by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Think, Newspaper

• Our son is in school now. You know, he’s six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I’m hoping that I’ll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Afternoon, Morning, Hoping

• Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that’s where I wanted to be.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Especially

• We’re going to develop – what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they’ll get the latest news, but they’ll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Story, Biggest, Develop

• Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it’s always false.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Husband, Ignore, Attention

• You know, there are not only – all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.

  Connie Chung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mean, Television, Newspapers

Connie Chung (17)

Birth:	20th August, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, News Presenter

About

Connie Chung was born in Washington, D.C.. She is an American journalist and News presenter. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. She graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland and went on to receive a degree in journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1969. Chung was a judge for the Miss Universe 2011 contest. Chung accepted a teaching fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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