Hugh Sidey Quotes
- A sense of humor is needed armor.
- Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
- We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.
- In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.
- When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.
- A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep…
- A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
- The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
- The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the…
- They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and…
- Carry laughter with you wherever you go.
- Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television…
- He is television's sultan of splutter.
- The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that…