Quotes About Current events

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time.

At this moment, some of the things I'm refusing to know anything about include: The former Soviet republics The Kardashians Twitter All Housewives, Survivors, American Idols, and Bachelors Karzai's brother Soccer Monkfish

Unless cataclysmic events are actively breaking, the purpose of cable news is emotional reassurance.

True, she never got a real M.B.A., but she had taken courses online and worked her way through list after list of so-called Great Books. She read the newspaper carefully. She was better informed on current events than almost anyone she knew. To have Sophie laugh at her, to throw her lack of formal education in her face— That

The problem you had wished to propose to me was one which I could not have solved; for I know nothing of the facts. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. I feel a much greater interest in knowing what passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing.

If it's called the USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? BAM. Busted!

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

The traditional country music stays because it's such an all-around good format and it's fun to write songs like 'Oh Susannah.' I just feel along with that you gotta talk about what's going on today.

The people can't find Syria on a map, they think God created humans one day in their existing form, and if you give them half a chance, they will go out and vote for a charlatan like Donald Trump.

The big question is why do we need the news? People who don't know who's in goverment still want the news. Is it because listening to the news allows us to have opinions? Is it because it gives us something to talk about, the human weather? Most readers who put down a paper certainly feel qualified to rule the world.

The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

Why would a person whose notebook aphorisms decry killing and whose personal morality led him to be a vegetarian go to work for the most brutal murderer of the era? Partly this choice reflects Leonardo's pragmatism. In a land where the Medici, Sforzas, and Borgias jostled for power, Leonardo was able to time his patronage affiliations well and know when to move on. But there is more. Even as he remained aloof from most current events, he seemed to be attracted to power.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

Oh, no," he said. "We don't read the newspaper. It's too depressing. Our motto is 'No news is good news.

today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.

I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.