Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.
I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.
I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.
People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.
When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.
I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers.
I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go.
That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
I like to live as big as I can.
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?
The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.
I am not insecure about being a journalist.
Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.
But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.
You see, that's the problem I have with "you people.
There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.
But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.
I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.
So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.
I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.
I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it.
I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run.
He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.
You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.
Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice.
I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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.
The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.
A lot people I know - it drives them crazy when they're watching, to see the people with their signs and waving, but there's something that's very inclusive about it.
And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.
I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.
I did anything that would get me on the air.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.
It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
My approach is a very human one, as a fan.
We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.
I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.
My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.
Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?
And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.
I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.
The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.
I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.
I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
Gore's problem is that the issues are all on his side.
But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.
We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.