News Quotes - page 2

The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar. (Martin Feldstein)
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast cold cosmos. But I hope that our Mars probes will discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be completely sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit. View quote
Nick Bostrom
People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change. View quote
Rupert Murdoch
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. View quote
Dave Barry
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything. View quote
Chris Martin
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. View quote
Mark Twain
I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around. (P. J. O'Rourke)
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news. View quote
Bryan Fuller
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. View quote
Christopher Lasch
At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. View quote
Bob Schieffer
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. View quote
Armstrong Williams
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. View quote
Charles Kuralt
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. View quote
Corrine Brown
Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door. View quote
Indra Devi
God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey. (Margot Kidder)
The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like. View quote
Pete du Pont
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. View quote
Robert McChesney
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. View quote
Robert Teeter
In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now. View quote
Roone Arledge