An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

- Claud Cockburn

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big d…

- Claud Cockburn

There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

- Claud Cockburn

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow t…

- Claud Cockburn

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

- Claud Cockburn

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

- Claud Cockburn

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

- Claud Cockburn

If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe t…

- Claud Cockburn

Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.

- Claud Cockburn