“ He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy. David Halberstam
“ Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image. David Halberstam
“ He was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance. David Halberstam
“ He knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves. David Halberstam
“ The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude. David Halberstam
“ Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple. David Halberstam
“ (I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story), David Halberstam
“ If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable. David Halberstam
“ He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men. David Halberstam
“ The Patriots had picked Brady in the sixth round, and he soon turned out to be one of the two or three best quarterbacks in the League, and absolutely perfect for the Belichick system and for the team… David Halberstam
“ The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation fo… David Halberstam
“ They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they partic… David Halberstam
“ Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those al… David Halberstam
“ Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences. David Halberstam
“ The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong. David Halberstam
“ Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed a nation's character in ways almost beyond the consciousn… David Halberstam
