160 Quotes by David Halberstam

She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.

You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.