"Fame is morally neutral."

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."

"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."

"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."

"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."

"If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable."

"Good night, and good luck."

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

"People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were."

"Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information."

"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."

"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."

"A satellite has no conscience."

"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."

"A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone."

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."

"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved."