Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Education was central to reporting.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.

Anyone that can pull you down is already below you!

Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States.

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.