The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

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

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

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

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

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

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

A satellite has no conscience.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Fame is morally neutral.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

Good night, and good luck.

Anyone who isnt confused really doesnt understand the situation.

To be persuasive we must be believable to be believable we must be credible credible we must be truthful.

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

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!