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.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

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

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.

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

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

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.