The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.