Claud Cockburn Quotes

#1. The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

Claud Cockburn

#2. An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

Claud Cockburn

#3. Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.

Claud Cockburn

#4. Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

Claud Cockburn

#5. Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

Claud Cockburn

#6. A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

Claud Cockburn

#7. If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

Claud Cockburn

#8. A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

Claud Cockburn