John Maxwell Hamilton quotes

“Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.”
-- John Maxwell Hamilton

Source : "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.

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“Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.”
-- John Maxwell Hamilton

Source : "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.

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“Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.”
-- John Maxwell Hamilton

Source : "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.

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“I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.”

“Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".”

“We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

“As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.”

“Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.”

“Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr.).”

“Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.”

Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, www.akdn.org. April 15, 2003.

“Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.”

“Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”

“Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.”