Frontline Quotes

I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power.

I am always in front, and in time of battle am never behind.

I'm not a war reporter.

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.

I actually went to the frontline to be with my brothers at Standing Rock.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

Our city finds itself in an uncomfortable place: on the frontline between freedom and auto_cracy.

'Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death…. The young must be first at the front line - don’t hide at the back. You must be at the front, die as martyrs and all your sins will be forgiven. This is how to achieve forgiveness.

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

It was January 1983 when we launched 'Frontline' on PBS with 'An Unauthorized History of the NFL.' The program was anchored by Jessica Savitch. We wanted to get attention, and we got it.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

Lead from the front.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at 'Frontline' with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.

I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.

I love 'Frontline.' It's the best TV show in the history of television.

I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

I don't really think of 'Frontline' as a strictly public affairs series; I think of it as a work of journalism that is constantly reinventing itself.