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Quotes by Journalist
"If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down."
"There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster."
"In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories."
"For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak."
"Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe."
"For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded."
"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
"They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness."
"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
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"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."
"You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles."
"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany."
"John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign."
"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."
"The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin."
"George Bush is trying to play it both ways."
"There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence."
"We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off."
"Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody."
"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."
"I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate."
"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
"The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations."
"It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses."
"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."
"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."
"The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform."
"Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter."
"I've been with the paper for almost 30 years."
"Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed."
"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."
"Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer."
"Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous."
"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."
"To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right."
"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."
"Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form."
"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."
"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."
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"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience."
"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."
"An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day."
"In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure."
"My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down."
"I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days."
"Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose."
"By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities."
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