Claud Cockburn Quotes

#1. When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.

John Pilger

#2. Look, Candida, I don't want to pee on your picnic ... -Ruby

Nina Malkin

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

Claud Cockburn

#4. Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.

Fran Tarkenton

#5. 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

#6. There will be peace in the world when we will learn to understand that there are no you and me, there is only we in this world.

Debasish Mridha

#7. It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

Mary Balogh

#8. Jumped and spun around. Man, my nightmares were making me jumpy. I hit the off button. It's time for school. Ugh. School was so my

Jessica Sorensen

#9. When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

Donald Miller

#10. 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

#11. Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales." p. 26

Stanley Fish

#12. Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. 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

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

Claud Cockburn

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

Claud Cockburn

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

Claud Cockburn

#17. 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