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

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.

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

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.

When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity.

As the wall between advertising and content erodes, the aptitude required to understand the functions and design of media content becomes more complex.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.

The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

Shah Rukh is as passionate and as enthusiastic as ever.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

Is it possible that more black people hate the President than are actually alive?