Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

Television will do anything for a rating... anything!

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!