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War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.
Look how great we are. We are to blame for everything in the world, which means we are really, really important.
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.
[People] will be reminded of the integrity of our election systems and the confidence that they deserve to have.
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.
I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.
Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.
This is America. In our country it doesn't matter a lick where you are from, it only matters where you're going.
I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.
Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.
Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.
I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.
I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.
Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.
Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.
What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.
I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.
The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay
We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion
There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.
'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.