Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!
Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
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.