160 Quotes by David Halberstam

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

she had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,

His failure to adapt to new techniques, to pander (his own word), probably made his supporters love him all the more, and probably also narrowed his political base.