American Journalist Quotes

Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.

My four Southern food groups are bourbon, salt, bacon and pie.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

Michael Connelly

There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

People who feel positively think differently. They think better.

Deborah Norville

A conventional 'success' story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I'd like to suggest an alternative 'success' story – one where, with each next, the protagonist is closer to finding that spot where he's no longer held back by his heart, and he explodes with talent, and his character blossoms, and the gift he has to offer the world is apparent.

If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and.667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

Joan Lowery Nixon

Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

Charles Krauthammer

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

You can't adopt politics as a profession, and remain honest.

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings — Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

Frank R. Stockton

Perhaps the greatest good that will emerge from this Far Eastern crisis is an awareness that freedom-loving men of all races and all nations will have proved that they can and must work and fight together if their freedom is to survive.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

I am interested in letting many people know that Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool.

John Seigenthaler Sr.