Daniel Schorr quotes

Daniel Schorr quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.”
-- Daniel Schorr

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“I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.”
-- Daniel Schorr

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“Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.”
-- Daniel Schorr

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“Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.”
-- Daniel Schorr

Source : David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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“Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.”
-- Daniel Schorr

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“All news is an exaggeration of life.”
-- Daniel Schorr

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“There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.”
-- Daniel Schorr

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“Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.”
-- Daniel Schorr

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