- Bob Hope: The Democrats really put on a celebration last Tuesday night, but you can't blame them. It's not every day that Roosevelt is elected president.. it just seems like it.
- Narrator: [reading from Bob Hope's journal] The fact that it wasn't a popular war.. our kids were still there. If I hadn't gone, I wouldn't have been able to look in the mirror.. I had to go.. for those kids.
- Conan O'Brien: Everybody in my generation knew that he entertained the troops and he invented entertaining the troops. What I didn't know was how much of his career he devoted to it.
- Narrator: [reading from Bob Hope's journal] The word Vaudeville is very dear to me. If it weren't for vaudeville, I might never have been in radio or pictures. Because it is THE place where I gained all my experience such as timing.. and ducking etc.
- Tom Selleck: It was just this endearing quality he had, that lovable coward. He would be frightened just like we would be so again he was kinda walking in our shoes.
- Bob Hope: And you know the election has certainly done strange things. I know one fella who was broke before the election but he won so much money betting on the Democrats, he's now a Republican.
- Bob Hope: I suppose you read where Elvis Presley passed his army physical. I feel a lot safer now.. don't you? Yes sir.. The doctors have ok'ed Elvis for the army now the army is checking the doctors.
- Conan O'Brien: Bob Hope knew that mistakes are gold.. that the written sketch is there as a kind of a jungle gym that you're suppose to play on, but then it's what you do with it that is ultimately the magic and something going wrong can obviously be fantastic.
- Narrator: [reading from Bob Hope's journal] It was May of 1941, the producer of our radio show asked if I'd take the show out of its Hollywood studio for one show at March Field, one of our air bases in Riverside California. I said 'what for? there was no war going on. Why should we drag the show down there?' I was resisting an idea that was to change my whole life. We had no idea that we were gonna discover an audience so ready for laughter.
- Dick Cavett: He was addicted to applause, adulation and laughs. as soon as he got out on stage he was transported into the another world where he was happiest.
- Conan O'Brien: He invented the way you entertain the troops. A lot of performers have done it since, but I know all the rules were invented by Hope.
- Tom Selleck: I think the great lesson that came out of Vietnam is we must never blame our troops for a mission that is unpopular. That has lasted and I hope it stays. For us, in the Vietnam era it wasn't so much fun but, Bob Hope was just steadfast in his support of troops. That meant so much to us in that time when we weren't accepted when traveling in your uniform meant a certain amount of abuse, a certain amount of negative reaction. Bob Hope was like a beacon for us. It just meant so much, meant so much to me and anybody that I know that served.. but that was him.. he was there all the time.
- Narrator: [reading from Bob Hope's journal] I do love television! and I don't want anyone to get the impression that I'm the longest running one man show in history. Nothing can be farther from The truth I've had more help in my career than a starlet with a stuck zipper. I don't know how to thank all the stars I've worked with over the years.. I worked with most everybody.
- Narrator: [reading from Bob Hope's journal] I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, fought and lived. I saw some of them died. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty that could exist under tyranny. I could ask for no more.
- Mort Lachman: He wasn't a guy working for money anymore, he was like a guy on a mission. He found something that was bigger than money, bigger than anything - which was filling the need of those guys, the desperate need they had to laugh.
- Richard Zoglin: Probably the most important legacy of Bob Hope is his public service work. He was really the model for pubic service in Hollywood. What he said to his fellow Hollywood stars was 'you're famous, you have an obligation to use your fame to do good'; to work for causes.
- Linda Hope: Many years he did from 100 to 150 benefits a year and they were benefits for all kinds of things. He use to always say to us; you don't have to be a comedian, you don't have to be anybody special you can always give back.
- Brooke Shields: He was entertaining all the time and it wasn't even just the show must goes on, the show keeps going on, all the time, everywhere.