108 Quotes by Edward R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.

We’re not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that’s show business.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Don’t be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers...

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There’s nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I’ve done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom – it’s gone.

Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.