Great Throughts Treasury

"What Moses brought down from Mount Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions."

"A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change even before he took power in January 2001… It has been called a secret blueprint for US global domination. … A small group of people with a plan to remove Saddam Hussein long before George W. Bush was elected president. … And 9/11 provided the opportunity to set it in motion. Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow."

"All networks are trying to focus on particular segments of audiences. The emphasis on especially youthful demographics is such that news divisions more and more are focusing on not necessarily less serious stories but they're staying away from some of the more serious stories that Tom and I have tried to specialize in. That is not a restriction we're going to face at Discovery."

"Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will ­ adjust your lives, not the standards."

"Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation."

"For the rest of his life, and I do mean the rest of his life, he always regretted the fact that he had dropped out of school."

"Forgive me for beating up on you there, ... but you are the only guy from the federal government who is coming out to take your medicine."

"And 2000's close campaign has put both candidates in straitjackets, he said. I think it's kind of sad that we've come to a point now that presidential candidates when they get this close to the election have to be so careful about what they say, ... They have to weigh each syllable so carefully that the thought of delivering an unscripted line is anathema to them, they feel as though they're walking through a mine field and they cannot afford to tick anybody off between now and Election Day."

"He is a guy who's had a stake driven through his heart. I mean, really nailed to the bottom of the coffin with a wooden stake, and a silver bullet through the forehead for good measure-and yet he keeps coming back."

"He was a student for the rest of his life, even though he had dropped out (of school) so early not even,' because he had dropped out so early. I think if there was one message he would like to leave with young people today it is, 'Don't do what I did.'"

"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."

"I don't know if everyone will give you a fair amount of time, but I promise you I will."

"I felt a certain amount of embarrassment about doing it (covering the trial) on a regular basis. Every time we did O.J., the ratings went up 10 percent."

"I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming. It's time to give something back."

"I have the necessary lack of tact."

"I think there is a tendency on the part of some of the cable networks to be in a desperate race to be first with the obvious. Can you imagine going to any one of those people and saying, 'Give us three hours of prime time' It wouldn't happen."

"I think we're glazing eyes all across America."

"In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen."

"It's their broadcast in the final analysis, ... I've always taken the position it's our job to make the program as attractive to the audience as we could possibly make it, but there are limits. You don't bring on dancing girls."

"Jennings, a high school dropout known for his handsome face and urbane delivery on World News Tonight , was always self-conscious about his good looks and his lack of education, ... He spent his adult life soaking up knowledge."

"Jennings, ABC's chief news anchor for more than 20 years, was also famously attracted to women, ... Even so, he only married four of them."

"More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book."

"My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you."

"My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went."

"My mother was born in the year 1899 and I was sitting there on New Year's Day in 1999 saying, 'God, I wish my grandfather had written a book about life in his time,' ... And then I thought, well, maybe I'll try and do it, and initially I sat down to do it more for the family than anything else."

"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach."

"People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media."

"The 10 of us are enormously excited to be at a place that wants nothing more than to produce the kind of television journalism that focuses on issues that matter to the largest number of people. We look forward to creating quality programming that provides the in-depth information for which Discovery Channel is known."

"The challenge over the years, and the challenge now, is to keep changing the program without altering it."

"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."

"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."

"There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common."

"There were great moments very early on, great moments in the middle and great moments at the end... What I'm proudest of is that we've maintained high standards from beginning to end. I don't think we ever let down standards."

"There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend."

"These cannot have been easy days for him. They have certainly not been for us."

"To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique."

"What Moses brought down from Mt Sinai were not ten suggestions. They are Commandments."

"What you're talking about is two very different operations. I don't want there to be hint of a suggestion that one operation is better than the other. But in the final analysis, this was a better fit."

"Who the hell is Bruce Springsteen to tell anybody how to vote?"

"Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public."

"You have lived up to every syllable of that commitment and I thank you."

"You just found out about it today. Don't you guys watch television? Don't you guys listen to the radio? Our reporters have been reporting about it for more than just today."

"You say you were surprised by the fact that so many people didn't make it out. It's no surprise to anyone that you had at least 100,000 people in the city of New Orleans who are dirt poor, who don't have cars, who don't have access to public transportation, who don't have any way to get out of the city simply just because someone says there is a Force 5 hurricane coming, you ought to get out. If you didn't have the buses there to get them out, why should it be a surprise to you that they stayed?"

"You, Dan, have been the prototype of the television correspondent, who must be where the story is,"