We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.