Lee Cowan quotes

Lee Cowan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.”
-- Lee Cowan

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“This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.”
“It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.”
“The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".”
“It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets.”
“I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC”
“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
“Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.”
“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”

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