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Quotes by Journalist
"I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing."
47
"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
46
"I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister."
45
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
44
"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists."
44
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
42
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
42
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
41
"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
41
"This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart."
41
"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous."
41
"The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis."
40
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
39
"Politics is show business for ugly people."
38
"I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift."
Want,
37
"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income."
36
"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."
35
"There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals."
34
"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
34
"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."
34
"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself."
34
"For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'"
34
"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
33
"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
33
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
33
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
33
"Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."
32
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
32
"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
Duty,
32
"Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone."
32
"You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him."
32
"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
32
"I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words."
32
"You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show."
32
"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
31
"Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly."
31
"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
31
"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
31
"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."
31
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
30
"I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us."
30
"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."
30
"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."
30
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
30
"It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues."
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