11 Quotes by Edwin Newman

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation’s children, everyone must get involved – television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

Will America be the death of English? I’m glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

In a decade, America’s mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.