James Reston Journal Quotations

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.