Daniel Schorr Quotes

• Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

  Daniel Schorr

  Fake People, Sincerity, Made

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• Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

  Daniel Schorr

  Secret, Power Corrupts, Secrecy

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• I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

  Daniel Schorr

  Government, Doubt, Care

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• Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

  Daniel Schorr

  Military, Agency, Government

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• Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

  Daniel Schorr

  Trying, Sake, Needed

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• All news is an exaggeration of life.

  Daniel Schorr

  News, Exaggeration

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• Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

  Daniel Schorr

  People, Abuse, Welfare

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• There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

  Daniel Schorr

  Country, Men, Trying

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