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

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

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

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.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

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