John Chancellor Quotations

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.

I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.

Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

She's a good ball player. She put her team on her back and carried them all the way back.

She was our Windex girl tonight. She went to the glass and just cleaned it all night long for us. She had been in a slump lately, but she came out of it tonight and went to work.