Daniel Schorr Quotes

#1. All news is an exaggeration of life.

Daniel Schorr

#2. You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

David Levithan

#3. There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

Daniel Schorr

#4. I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Daniel Schorr

#5. If you want something different, do something different. "Same crap, different day" doesn't describe the day; it describes your attitude towards it.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Bette Davis

#7. Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

Daniel Schorr

#8. Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ... , or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

Daniel Schorr

#9. Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

Sanford Bishop

#10. Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Daniel Schorr

#11. Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Daniel Schorr

#12. Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Daniel Schorr

#13. I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Elizabeth Taylor