18 Quotes by James Reston

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.