News Quotes

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

It's hard to listen to the news every day and have everyone saying you're the Antichrist.

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Other people's successes are good news - for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.'

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.