Graydon Carter Quotes - Page 3

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.

Everything I love about America is fragile.

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.