#lists

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#easier #generally #good #heroes #novelists

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#honest #journalists #like #politicians #stay

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time. ↗

— David Viscott

#day #get #lists #losing #sense

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#default #fact #government #inside #journalists

I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#charging #consumers #content #discipline #forces

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#carve #compete #good #helm #journalism

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#human #human mind #idea #important #materialists

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists. ↗

— Philip Roth

#assure #cannot #discretion #easier #i

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#actions #almost #america #authority #aware

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#i #i am #i do #leaders #man