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Quotes by Journalist
"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
40
"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."
40
"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do."
Risk,
40
"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."
40
"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
40
"There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans."
40
"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.'"
40
"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."
39
"So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured."
39
"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
39
"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."
39
"I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us."
38
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
38
"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
Duty,
38
"Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone."
38
"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
38
"What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news."
News,
38
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
38
"I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience."
38
"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens."
37
"Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy."
37
"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
37
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
37
"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."
37
"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
37
"Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head."
37
"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."
37
"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
37
"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."
36
"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
36
"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."
36
"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."
36
"You have to stand up for some things in this world."
36
"I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection."
36
"The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down."
36
"I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park."
36
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
36
"There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that."
36
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."
36
"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
36
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
36
"The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent."
36
"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
36
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
35
"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."
Will,
35
"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."
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