American Journalist Quotations | Page 6

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.

While there seems to be a major commitment now, historically there hasn't been. It's not an automatic thing where they say we gotta cover that.

Tony Blair barely escaped this year, and now George W. Bush, if elections were to be held today, would be in a serious challenge as well.

We all made each other better at what we do. And we had a common DNA, if you will: We were all reporters first and anchors second.

The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

This was just one of many times God has spared me.

What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.

To get interviews for their newscasts, I'd work the phones, calling locations to find someone I could interview when a story broke.

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

What they are interested in at the L.A. Times is profits, and then when it's convenient to them, they wave the flag of free press.

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it's valuable to people, so they deliver a message, not just information.

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle.

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

At the end of that year I was promoted to sergeant. Only five or six of us got promoted to sergeant for our final year in high school.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

Driving down Laurel Canon, which is a major street that goes between the Santa Monica Mountains to the Hollywood Strip, was neat.

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

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

There was a large number of educated and accomplish men among my countrymen, and in them the love of music and art was very marked.

There's something inside Lacey that led him to think this was an adversary group before he ever had a serious conversation with members of the staff.

There's more to life than physical and materia.

I sometimes tell people, when I was hired at CBS, it was because I was a good writer, not whether I was or not was beside the point.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening.

The Russians have an excellent system of higher education. They maintain very high standards. The system is highly structured and competitive.

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

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

The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, first adopted its code of ethics in 1926 and revised it most recently in 1996.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges.

The theme with Hillary Clinton is, she wants to know where the outrage is. And we've found where the outrage is. It's in Howard Dean.

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

Texas has had one of the nation's worst public health records for decades. More than a quarter of its citizens have no health insurance.

Soon I was crossing the river and nearing New York. Once again I was a free girl after ten days in the mad-house on Blackwell's Island.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

Television is a visual medium, and you want to look good, but beyond that it's about reporting, about giving information to the viewers.

Sometimes Bill O'Reilly would sometimes go after me every day, and this went on for the last couple of years, and I'm still standing.

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Prior to 9/11, everybody was talking about at least one of the evening news programs going away, that their future was very limited.

Often I would go back to my computer and there would be so many items in my in-box that I would be unable to send an e-mail until I deleted them.

Affirmative action was never a very elegant solution to the problem of racial injustice.

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

A couple of weeks ago, the court ruled that states cannot exempt themselves from federal laws against the medical use of marijuana.

Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

So you have a built-in dilemma. Do you want to go after older people who watch news or younger people who watch ABC entertainment shows.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

Now, getting back to how much money you've raised so far for your campaign, approximately $6.7 million. Where is the money coming from?

Now and then some Party member would announce a study circle, and I would join it, along with some ten or twelve working men and women.

A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.

Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

The Buddhists feel that you are recreated as some thing, as an insect, or an animal, or a person, but that you're not in some beautiful shiny place.

At what point does CNN wise up and rein in 'Larry King Live' to save itself?

Back in the 70s I knew people who could recall when Sugar Land was a company town - the company being the Imperial Sugar Company.

Athletes don't want to talk to you, it's the least favorite part of their job. So the hardest part is actually getting the interview.

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

You said that our system here in America, certainly when it comes to financing and the economy, is held together with spit, not glue.

You need heroes like that for a sport to surge the way basketball did with Michael Jordan. Now he's gone and that sport is having problems.

You must qualify when a major story breaks, and you don't have to reach out and grab people by the lapels to get their attention.

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

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

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

A lot of people told me that the job of making ABC News competitive was so difficult and so long that it wasn't worth the trouble.

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

They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.

They know I have a strong - not only that I have a strong relation to readers, but so did Ramirez, the cartoonist. You know, it's just gibberish.

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.

This is truly an attempt to understand where young people are coming from today. I think it's fascinating where this generation is coming from.

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

They're not expecting me to break down man-to-man vs. zone, but I know enough about football that I can add my own take and have my own style.

There's always been a mystique and an allure to motorcycles. Even for people who don't ride, there's a fascination.

There's a lot of things being said about me out there. A lot of things that have nothing to do with the reporting I've done for the last two years.

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

The most challenging aspect of it is not interviewing the people, but getting the right people at the right time to be interviewed.

The morning is an extremely lucrative time slot for network television and of course, if it's making money, everybody wants a slice of that pie.

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

It was something of a shock, as I truly felt that I could come here, start coaching, and we'd be national championship contenders!

It's a constant battle to get cameras in in many states. But Florida, for example, is increasingly cooperative. We continue to press our case.

For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.

For many celebrities, securing the public's votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.