Quotes by Eric Sevareid

• Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
• The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
• The chief cause of problems is solutions.
• Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
• I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
• I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
• Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
• Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
• Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
• The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.