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Vote: | "From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being. |
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Vote: | I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish. |
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Vote: | More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed. |
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Vote: | My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most. |
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Vote: | My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier. |
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Vote: | Twenty-five years ago, I was a guy with an idea to give the public access to political events, without interruption and without commentary. But C-SPAN is also the story of a group of public-minded cable entrepreneurs who stepped up and said, 'Yes, we'll put the House of Representatives on our cable systems,' and who continue to support us to this day. |
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Vote: | When you add it all up, I've committed about 1.8 years of my life to reading books for the series. It's time to use all those hours in other ways. |
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Brian Patrick Lamb (born October 9, 1941) helped found the C-SPAN television network in 1979, and has been its chief executive officer since its founding. He hosts Washington Journal once a week, and hosted the C-SPAN show Booknotes from 1989 to 2004. He now hosts Booknotes' replacement show, Q & A (http://q-and-a.org/).
He is the editor of several collections of Booknotes interviews. Lamb edits out his side of the questioning, leaving something of an essay by the interviewee:
* Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History
* Booknotes: Stories from American History
* Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas
* Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America
Lamb is also the author of Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites.
According to a Washington Post profile (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52388-2002Jul10?language=printer), Lamb has never spoken the words Brian Lamb on the air.
Lamb was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He graduated from Purdue University, going on to join the U.S. Navy. While in the Navy, he served at the White House during the Johnson administration. He also served in the Pentagon's public affairs office, and later in the Office of Telecommunications Policy during the Nixon administration.
External links * Lamb biography
* Brian Lamb's Flock, Washington Post
* Lamb speech: "Debunking the Myths of C-SPAN"
* 1996 interview with Reason magazine
...(more on Wikipedia)
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Brian Lamb".
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