Jack Anderson
Full Name: Jackson Northman Anderson
Birthdate: October 19, 1922
Birthplace: Long Beach, California, USA
Date of Death: December 17, 2005
Occupation: Columnist
Profile: Uncovered a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. Awarded the 1972 Pulitzer Prize.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Anderson_(columnist)
Number of Quotes: 17
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die—and
what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?
Health experts working on a union-backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were
stunned when the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn’t support the program but tried to discourage participation in it.
I believe our country is strong enough to be criticized.
I don’t like to hurt people, I really don’t like it at all. But in order to
get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
I look at the universe and I know there’s an architect.
In Washington, truth is so precious that it should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.
It’s my father’s legacy. My father’s view was that the public is the employer
of these government employees and has the right to know what they’re up to.
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak
immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Once an innovation is implemented, it is no longer innovative.
That’s a great team we lost to. It just wasn’t our day.
The First Amendment means everything to me.
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.
The reporter's lot is the one of the solitary, the outsider looking in.
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
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