#om

I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#bringing #competition #general #good #great

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#benjamin franklin #especially #felt #foreign #foreign policy

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#carve #compete #good #helm #journalism

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#baghdad #colonels #everybody #expensive #go

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#amazing #ben #biographies #discover #einstein

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#education #great #innovative #job #right

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#confluence #culture #happened #know #sort

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#desire #doing #enough #good #i

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#come #europe #get #i #join

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#american #go #grow #grow up #happy