In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Once we get further into the irrigation season and start using more water, we'll get all of it flushed out.

I don't think the pictures and words can be separated, ... If you get an amazing photograph, like the dust clouds blowing over a small town in Kansas, it's not enough to look at the picture; (the readers) want to know, 'How did this happen, that half the farming soil of a whole state is blown away?' And then you want to know, 'Well, what happened to the people, and what kind of condition were they in? It's in the middle of the '30s, and most of them were unemployed, and how did they get out of it? Why didn't the politicians act sooner?'

By the end of this century, of course, America is the dominant world power, economically and militarily, and it has not only enlarged the freedoms of its own citizens -- which was very circumscribed in 1889 -- but by 1989 it has enlarged the freedoms of millions and millions of people around the world.

We're all told that people are busy, and have short attention spans, and yet these stories are so marvelous, and really ought to be read.

It's a story of terrific heroism (with) many, many dramatic stories of individuals,