James Reston

Also known as James Barrett Reston, James B. Reston

American journalist and newspaper editor (1909–1995)

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“People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.”
“Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.”
“The rising power of the United States in world affairs … requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism.... Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.”
“In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.”
“Governments are the only vessels that leak from the top”
“I wonder when I hear people scoffing at the four freedoms and wondering whether wars, after all, ever really settle anything. Do we, even now, understand the revolutionary nature of this war? Are we putting everything to the test; will it help win the war? Are we clear on the enormity of our task? Do we realize the size of the stakes?”