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

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

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

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

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

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

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!