Quotes About Current events

Without the balancing setting of everyday life all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Whuss de news? Oh de white folks is still in de lead.

I am a news junkie and I can't remember a time when I haven't read a paper or even when I am abroad, watched the news on a TV or your phone.

I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

If I don't watch the news in a day, I think the potential for humanity is incredible. But anytime I look at the news, I'm like, 'We're in really big trouble.'

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

Old Wallenrod was unable to survive the disasters of the Empire. At seventy years of age he speculated in cottons, relying on the genius of Napoleon without comprehending that genius is quite as often beyond as at the bottom of current events. The old man had purchased nearly as many bales of cotton as the Emperor had lost men during his magnificent campaign in France.

I used to read three newspapers every morning. Three.

I used to read three newspapers every morning. Three." Her voice was softer now so as not to disturb the baby. "You know where I get all my news now? Fucking Oprah." Her expression was rueful, but also resigned, her fingers making small circles on the baby's

I don't follow politics much.

O how I wish Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events. [...] What would he say about hippie communes, student demonstrations, drugs, trades unions? Would he still be as hopeful about the social benefits of nationalised industries? Would he still call for a higher birth-rate? What he would say, I have no idea: I am only certain that he would be worth listening to.

He warps your perspective on the current events in your life until reality appears much worse and more desperate than it truly is.

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

I think I've seen every 'Bill Maher' episode.

There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them.

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.

I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.

Both domestically and globally, news is breaking at an unrelenting pace. 'Face the Nation' has long been the place that viewers across the country rely on to make sense of it all by cutting through the noise to break down what matters and how it affects our daily lives.

Novelists, it seems to me, are the very last people who should be asked to comment on the news of the day, and sooner or later, when they have been pilloried for their views, most of them recognise this.

The most violent show on TV is the six o'clock news.

As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.