"Okay, Ed, now I've gotten the ice. When are you gonna stand up to McCarthy?"

"Go back, go back, you silly bastards. This ain't our kind of war. This one is for the birds."

"This seems to me to be more a day for a searching of the human soul perhaps than for any kind of scientific celebration."

"A single, isolated battle that ranks in magnificence and courage with Guam, Tarawa, Omaha Beach. A story that should …"

"Perhaps the greatest good that will emerge from this Far Eastern crisis is an awareness that freedom-loving men of al…"

"The fault of democracy everywhere, including the United States of America, is that too few people make use of it."

"You want me to tell Ed Murrow what to say or what not to say?...I'll tell him you said so, Governor, and thank you ve…"

"At least I can shout to the world this--I'm my own midget. The mistakes will be my mistakes--the failures will have m…"

"The first act in the tragedy took place in September 1941, a few weeks after the Germans captured Kiev. One day they …"

"Just think! If we survive them, these will be the good old days!"