#dc

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey? ↗

— Larry King

#arthur #broadcaster #crazy #everyone #godfrey

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now. ↗

— John Thune

#children #country #going #grandchildren #happening

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools! ↗

— Alex Trebek

#college #fools #got #hired #i

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#became #been #before #bulk #doing

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #bites #broadcasters #contempt #down

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#bearable #being #broadcast #disk #due

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#although #argue #came #certainly #excesses

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#anything #better #broadcasts #completely #controlling

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures. ↗

— Scott Walker

#america #been #children #courage #decided

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better. ↗

— Scott Walker

#changed #children #course #grandchildren #history