Howard Fineman Quotes

#1. I know that from the days of Watergate ... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

Howard Fineman

#2. Most parents send their children off to school with little bromides like "Have a great day! I can't wait to see you later!" or "Do your best at school today. We're having your favorite pizza for dinner tonight!" My mother would send me off with "Enjoy yourself. We could all be dead tomorrow.

Melissa Rivers

#3. All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

Plato

#4. Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

Howard Fineman

#5. I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.

Stan Wawrinka

#6. Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Samuel Johnson

#7. The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

Howard Fineman

#8. Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

Howard Fineman

#9. When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

Howard Fineman

#10. I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

John Lydon

#11. Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.

Howard Fineman

#12. Do you see Jesus Christ as the son of God and believe in him as the route to salvation and eternal life?

Howard Fineman

#13. The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

Howard Fineman

#14. As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.

Howard Fineman

#15. By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Howard Fineman

#16. If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.

Howard Fineman

#17. To me, natural, healthy looking skin is really beautiful. With a little concealer, eyeshadow, liner, gloss and bronzer, I love my lighter makeup look. I've saved so much money on facials!

Giuliana Rancic

#18. It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

Howard Fineman

#19. In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year. With increasing sophistication and urgency, campaigns are using the Web as a bulletin board, advertising medium and organizing tool.

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#20. There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.

Howard Fineman

#21. A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues

E. E. Cummings

#22. A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

Howard Fineman

#23. A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Howard Fineman

#24. If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

Howard Fineman