If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question..

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all ….

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie..

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie..

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer..

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason..

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had..

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem..

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements..

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out..

I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, th….

You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch a….

Rich people march on Washington every day..

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win..

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, ….

There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for….

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed..

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure..

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, mos….

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and it….

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale..