"In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us."

"I am only one; but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something."

"A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella."

"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

"I don't hire anybody who's not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them."

"No one ever understood disaster until it came."

"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."

"As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."

"Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you."

"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."

"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."