A satellite has no conscience.

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.