James Reston American Journalist Quotations

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.