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.

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

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

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

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.