For all of the difficulties, I am somewhat optimistic about the future. In my lifetime I have seen the resiliency of American democracy.What I've come to admire is the muscularity and flexibility of this society. What I trust is its common sense.
– David Halberstam
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
– David Halberstam
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.