"He hated House members who longed only to run for the Senate, and senators who longed only to run for the presidency. He was appalled by what he felt television had done to the Senate by the mid-fifties. It had become a major launching platform for presidential campaigns. He thought television had ruined the Senate as a serious body. “All they do there is preen and comb their hair and run for President. It’s like a presidential primary over there,"
"In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity."
"He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups."
"They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing."
"Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion."
"It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven."
"He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men."
"All professions have some element of theater to them."
"Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy."
"Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television."
"Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,"
"If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm."
"Education was central to reporting."
"Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics."
"If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school."
"He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government."
"One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much."
"he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance."
"Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences."
"Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted."
"The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt."
"If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable."
"(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),"
"Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple."
"The telephone was a sign of being rushed."