Journalist Quotes

Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.
Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.
Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.
We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.
We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level.
We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.
What I've been telling people is that the doctors are gaining on cancer very rapidly. It's almost become a chronic disease, like diabetes - something you can treat. It doesn't go away, and you're not well in the sense of being over it, but you go on and live your life.
What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives.
When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, 'Gosh, well, it's been a good run.' What I didn't realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically.
When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.
After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have decided to retire. It's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air.
For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.
I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk.
I don't see myself as a Luddite.
I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?
I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good.
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.
I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
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