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.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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.
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.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Good night, and good luck.
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
Senator McCarthy's reckless and unfounded attempt to impugn my loyalty is just one more example of his typical tactic of attempting to tie up to Communism anyone who disagrees with him.
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.
A satellite has no conscience.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.
