Quotes by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

• We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
• There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
• The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
• The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
• Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
• While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
• It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
• Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
• If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
• Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
• Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.