The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

My parents were strict with school, strict with grades. I had piano classes, horseback riding, dance.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.

Sometimes a hard days work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

Not all political actors share our vision of fighting terrorism, lessening tensions in the region and focusing on building the economy. It is natural that they would challenge the government, but we have fought every challenge effectively. The daily ups and down of democracy should not be interpreted as lack of stability.

E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw this' and dumped my laptop, though I've begun to re-engage with it.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.

Future is a meaningless word if you don't give your heart and soul to your dreams. What happens to us is never etched in stone, but determined by what we want to happen Death is inevitable, but life is what we can avoid, if we so choose.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.