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“Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.”
“Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.”
“Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa
“Newspapers have been likened to steamships that move very slowly, in terms of their direction. And when a reporter is sent out on a story, if that reporter has his or her own personal standards and is given a certain amount of time, they're going to probably do as good a story yesterday or tomorrow as they did the day before yesterday when there was a different editor there. But an editor provides vision. An editor decides what's going to be on page one, what gets rewarded, who's given more time, who's given what beats. They set a direction.”
“Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.”
“Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.”
“Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.”
Source: 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
“Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.”
“Newspapers should have no friends.”
“Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.”
“Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.”
“Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.”
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
“Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.”
“Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.”
“newspapers, without a purpose, devoted space nowadays to illiterate imbecilities that nobody would have glanced at twice, a generation ago”
Source: The Sun Cure
“Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.”
“Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.”
Source: Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997
“Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .”
“Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. [TV remote control] Click.”
“Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you were from... Republican women picked Oprah as the most admired woman, followed by Sarah Palin. Democratic women said Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman, followed by Oprah Winfrey. Independents also picked Oprah Winfrey, followed by Diane Sawyer.”
“Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.”
“Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn't really mean it.”
“Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump`s biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud.”
“Newt Gingrich gave voice to something that was said throughout this campaign from Democrats and Republicans.”
“Newt Gingrich got in hot water during his 2012 presidential race for using campaign funds to pay himself $47,000 for a mailing list.”
“Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him.”
“Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.”
“Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.”
“Newt Gingrich is against same-sex marriage. Well, actually, he's against same-marriage sex.”
“Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.”
“Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of.”
“Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.”
“Newt Gingrich plans to announce his campaign for president this Wednesday. I don’t know about his chances. I mean, I’m not saying Gingrich peaked in the ‘90s, but his campaign is being sponsored by Tamagotchis and Crystal Pepsi.”
“Newt Gingrich, Reagan reflected, had never in his life fit properly into a suit. He still looked like the fat, despised, teacher’s-pet, suck-up junior debating whiz who was going to fall apart in his senior year, except he was now fifty years past it. Back when I was alive, he had that same querulous expression of a guy who didn’t understand two big things:
1. being smart doesn’t make you popular, and
2. even if it did, he isn’t smart enough for it to work for him.
He remembered trying to explain it to Nancy, who had told him that, “Ronnie, granted that Newt is sometimes irritating, you have to admit he’s brighter than most Congressmen—”
“So is every horse out at Rancho del Cielo, Mommy, and half the rocks for that matter,” he’d said.”
Source: Raise the Gipper!
“Newt Gingrich said that this executive producer is weird and it raises - does raise questions about possible conflicts. The FCC regulates NBC corporations can try to curry favor with the president by placing their products on the show [Celebrity Apprentice].”
“Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?”
“Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.”
“Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon.”
“Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.”
“Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at zoos. Mitt Romney once did a photo op at a zoo. That was a big mistake, because he stood next to the chameleon, and HE changed colors.”
“Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama.”
“Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.”
“Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him.”
“Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.”
“Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed.”
“NEWT rummages in his pockets and pulls out a tiny bottle with only a couple of muddy drops left inside it.
TINA: Is that Polyjuice?
NEWT (of the bottle): Just enough to get me inside.
He looks down at his coat and finds one of THESEUS’S hairs on his shoulder. He adds it to the mixture, drinks, and turns into THESEUS, still wearing NEWT’S clothes.
TINA: Who—?
NEWT: My brother, Theseus. He’s an Auror. And a hugger.”
Source: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay
“Newt Scamander: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”
Source: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
“NEWT (serious): Jacob?
JACOB: Yeah?
NEWT: In my case, in the pocket there, you’ll find a pair of tweezers.
JACOB: Tweezers?
NEWT: They’re thin and pointy—
TINA: Thin, little pointy things.
JACOB: Yes, I know what tweezers are.”
Source: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay