
A satellite has no conscience.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

To be credible we must be truthful.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices
just recognize them.

Fame is morally neutral.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.