Quotes:You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good
news.
View quotes by Adlai StevensonYou will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good
news.
View quotes by Adlai E StevensonWhat interested me was not
news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
View quotes by John GuntherThey say that today's
news is tomorrow's chip paper but I'm sick of hearing it. Anyway, they use normal paper.
View quotes by Jessie WallaceBack in my day television was live and not recorded, so what you saw is what actually happened... barely anything these days is live apart from the
News.
View quotes by Greg GarrisonI love playing golf from time to time, and the good
news is that I'm definitely getting better at it I feel.
View quotes by Peter ForsbergI now bear a kind of stigmata. I am in the computer as having been denied entry to the United States and that is really bad
news. They can put things into that computer, but they never take them out.
View quotes by Ian McEwanCBS
news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
View quotes by Conan O'Brien[Warren] Harding of Ohio was chosen by a group of men in a smoke-filled room early today as Republican candidate for President. (12 June 1920,
news report)
View quotes by Kirke SimpsonBriggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune. [on
news actor Johnny Briggs was to be axed]
View quotes by Lynne PerrieAh, the pleasure, the joy - a big
news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
View quotes by Kamal AhmedI'd been in South Africa on a modeling job and they'd told me to lose weight. I didn't fancy that so I was on my way home. And that was when I got the call telling me I was the new Lara. It was such fantastic
news. It's such a high profile job - and one of the few that lets you keep your boobs and bum. [on being Lara Croft]
View quotes by Lucy ClarksonOur people receive the
news of his death with a deep sense of grief and loss.
He was a holy champion of the Filipino family and of profound Christian values that make everyone of us contemplate... what is just, moral and sacred in life.
[on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Gloria ArroyoSo, I am a b*stard, and the English are b*stards. But the really bad
news is that you are too. My vision of Europe would be Europe of b*stards for whom the question of legitimacy was a site of endless struggle and contestation...
View quotes by Simon CritchleyI have come to accept that if I have a new haircut it is front page
news. But having a picture of my foot on the front page of a national
newspaper is a bit exceptional.
View quotes by David BeckhamIf you can manipulate
news, a judge can manipulate the law.
View quotes by Mario CuomoDeeply saddened by the
news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn. [on the London terrorist bombings, 7th July 2005]
View quotes by Pope Benedict XVI'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?'
-Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.'
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'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
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