Harry Reasoner Quotes

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.
Harry Reasoner

May, President, Percent

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
Harry Reasoner

Nature, Different, Wants

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
Harry Reasoner

Good, Live, Journalist

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
Harry Reasoner

Real, Wanted, Grow

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Harry Reasoner

Mom, Baseball, Statistics

We're all controlled neurotics.
Harry Reasoner

Controlled, Neurotics

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 17, 1923

Died: August 6, 1990

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