It’s time to acknowledge that the TV ratings adopted more than eight years ago have proved to be a shabby, irrelevant, hopelessly confusing failure.

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

Television’s not going read stories to you.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith;...

The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, first adopted its code of ethics in 1926 and revised it most recently in 1996.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody’s mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can’t stand...

Millions of Americans annually commit themselves to such good works, and no country on earth comes close to matching our record.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field...

A finished person is a boring person.

Now I know what a statesman is; he’s a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of...

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone – or even close to everyone.

The theme with Hillary Clinton is, she wants to know where the outrage is. And we’ve found where the outrage is. It’s in Howard Dean.

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course – I’m a girly-girl – and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill...

It’s gonna be short if it’s news; put it at the top. Style’s not an issue, just make it news.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on...

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney’s press conference.

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn’t know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn’t see how I could write it.

We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove’s attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It’s a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

I’m always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn’t be worried about beauty.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don’t discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it’s stupid. Banning books shows you don’t trust your kids to think and you don’t trust yourself to be able...

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn’t when I started.

I have lived in the homes of workers; they live on boiled potatoes, black bread with lard spread on it instead of butter, and rotten beer.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

We’re all controlled neurotics.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.