James Reston Quotes
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
