Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.