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.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you’d never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages...

One of the advantages of the book’s having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there’s been time for people to report back on what it’s done for them.

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went...

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

There’s a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

My approach is a very human one, as a fan.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Television’s very dependent on images. That’s not what news is.

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

We’d all like to vote for the best man but he’s never a candidate.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

Is not this the true romantic feeling – not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you’re not also against in vitro fertilization.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the...

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

All wars are planned by old men In council rooms apart.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

There was nothing in all Douglas’s powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln’s speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the...

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is – is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

And I’m proud of what I do as a professional, too.

When I’m anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

Unless you’re doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough...

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters’ disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you...

I don’t know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.