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Quotes by Journalist
"What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right."
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"It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
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"Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win."
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"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."
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"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."
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"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool."
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"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."
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"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."
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"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."
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"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
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"Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow."
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"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
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"Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one."
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"Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left."
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"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
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"It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it."
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
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"I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger."
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"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."
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"Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base."
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"Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express."
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"I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving."
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"This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons."
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"Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound."
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"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."
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"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
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"This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians."
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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other."
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"You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again."
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"Kill the body and the head will die."
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"If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people."
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"A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie."
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"I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of."
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"The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits-a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
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"I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it."
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"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."
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"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."
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"These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam."
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"We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous."
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"There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it."
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"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
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"Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere."
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