edward r murrow

“ A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone. ”

“ If you believe that this war will be decided on the home front, then you must believe that radio used as an instrument of war is one of the most powerful weapons a nation possesses. ”

“ Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice and those thoughts we aren't interested in, people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly. ”

“ People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. ”

“ The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ”

“ We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. ”

“ We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. ”

“ It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation. ”

“ A satellite has no conscience. ”

“ To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. ”