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Quotes by Journalist
"A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."
"The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers."
"Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self."
"No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States."
"Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end."
"I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward."
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"I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me."
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
"What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty."
"We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess."
"At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well."
"Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived."
"The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal."
"The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example."
"The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians."
"Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium."
"I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court."
"The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly."
"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
"As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."
"We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous."
"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can."
"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."
"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs."
"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
"When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important."
"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
"While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers."
"I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out."
"I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that."
"I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it."
"A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China."
"When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses."
"Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold."
"Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is."
"Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning."
"I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one."
"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
"All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful."
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"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."
"I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents."
"We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words."
"I look for those moments that are "gee whiz" moments. There's some "gee whiz" stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post."
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