Consider children as a beat. Clearly not an institution of power, children don't vote and they don't pass taxes. They have no mone...y, and they don't buy newspapers or watch the news on television. Consequently, children are one of the most neglected segments of society in the news, except as a subtopic of other power beats such as education, family, and crime. Children are in serious trouble in this society, which means the foundation of our society is in trouble, which means the future is in trouble, and that is news.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popul...ar than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first--rock and roll or Christianity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as go...od as new. What is broken is broken--and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.... I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't. My dear, I don't give a damn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, I am chiefly interested in the renomination, so don't get disconsolate over that. If we lost the election I shall feel that ...the party is rejected, whereas if I fail to secure the renomination it will be a personal defeat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think of myself as a sex symbol or a servant. I think of myself as somebody who knows how to open the door of a 747 in the... dark, upside down, and under water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »