"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"

"What a nice night for an evening"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"