James Reston

“All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.”

“This is the greatest country in the history of the world, and it's a good deal better than it has any right to be.”

“The bigger the theory, the smaller the proof.”

“In any war, the first casualty is common sense.”

“We are all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.”

“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.”

“I have always felt that the first duty of a newspaperman is to be accurate. If he is accurate, he is fair.”

“Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”

“The man who can't change his mind can't change anything.”

“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.”

“A statesman is a politician who is held upright by equal pressure from all directions.”

“The business of the journalist is to tell what he sees, not what he is.”

“The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it.”