David Brinkley

“The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.”

“What I have to say is far more important than how I look.”

“You don't have to be old to be wise.”

“Any country that has tried to create a government of 'the best and the brightest' has ended up with a government of the worst and the dullest.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“News is what I say it is.”

“The private lives of public figures are a legitimate subject of public interest.”

“The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”

“Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.”

“It is all right to be content with what you have; never with what you are.”

“The vast majority of people are unthinking hedonists.”

“We all know that television is better for the eyes than the mind.”

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.”

“He [Bill Clinton] has not a creative bone in his body. What he is is a bore, and will always be a bore.”

“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”