A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.