Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomat…

- Edwin Newman

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

- Edwin Newman

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

- Edwin Newman

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

- Edwin Newman

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

- Edwin Newman

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

- Edwin Newman

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leader…

- Edwin Newman

In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to b…

- Edwin Newman

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of use…

- Edwin Newman