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> [ ... Don \[Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer\] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/don-hewitt-60-minutes-exec-producer-told-me-you-have-set-broadcast/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

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## More by Nicholas von Hoffman

> [Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/americans-will-quarrel-over-how-who-or-what-to-rescue-or-save-but-the/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [We are the people are parents warned us against.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/we-are-the-people-are-parents-warned-us-against/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [ ... Don \[Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer\] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/don-hewitt-60-minutes-exec-producer-told-me-you-have-set-broadcast/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/taken-as-a-whole-the-mass-media-seldom-rises-to-the-level-of/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/to-its-committed-members-the-democratic-party-was-still-the-party-of/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/tens-of-billions-are-going-into-the-pockets-of-tens-of-thousands-of/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/the-blame-for-the-maddening-complications-of-the-federal-tax-system/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/foreign-aid-has-been-perfected-so-that-it-subsidizes-corporate-u-s/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so much created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/what-the-computer-can-do-in-art-and-design-has-turned-aesthetics-on/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/in-one-of-his-puckish-moods-saul-talked-the-president-of-a-university/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/but-if-not-kelso-then-something-else-because-a-free-people-must-own/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/we-preach-free-enterprise-capitalism-we-believe-in-it-we-give-our/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it, either. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/the-american-government-has-been-harvesting-the-middle-eastern-grapes/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/kelso-s-proposals-do-promise-to-free-us-from-our-morbid-dependency-on/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

> [Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/some-flag-waving-is-good-a-lot-of-flag-waving-is-tolerable-incessant/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

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