Literature Quotes - Page 107

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

I used to be a print reporter.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.