I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Study men, not historians.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

I am not a televangelist.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

Dissents speak to a future age.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.