15 Quotes by John Chancellor

I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

We held on in a tough game. We've been in this type of game before this season, and we held on. We got this first game out of the way and now we get to play again.

She was our Windex girl tonight. She went to the glass and just cleaned it all night long for us. She had been in a slump lately, but she came out of it tonight and went to work.

She's a good ball player. She put her team on her back and carried them all the way back.

The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.

Other administrations have had a love-hate relationship with the press. The Nixon administration has a hate-hate relationship.

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.

Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.