Daniel Schorr Quotes

All news is an exaggeration of life.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.