William Paley: There's a Knickerbocker game tonight, I've got front row seats. Are you interested?
Edward R. Murrow: I'm a little busy bringing down the network tonight, Bill.
Edward R. Murrow: We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
Edward R. Murrow: What'd the general have to say?
Fred Friendly: It was a colonel. Two of them.
Edward R. Murrow: That makes a general.
Shirley Wershba: Name me another wife who reminds her husband to take off his wedding ring before he goes to the office.
Joe Wershba: Ava Gardner.
Edward R. Murrow: Milo Radulovich.
Fred Friendly: Italian?
Edward R. Murrow: Irish.
Edward R. Murrow: He's gonna hope a senator trumps a newsman.
Fred Friendly: He'll lose.
Edward R. Murrow: Not if we're playing bridge.
Edward R. Murrow: We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow: Did you know that Shirley and Joe are married?
Fred Friendly: Yeah.
Edward R. Murrow: Did everybody know?
Don Hollenbeck: I could use a scotch.
Edward R. Murrow: I think everyone could use a scotch.
Edward R. Murrow: We'll split the advertising, Fred and I. He just won't have any presents for his kids at Christmas.
Sig Mickelson: He's a Jew.
Edward R. Murrow: Well don't tell him that. He loves Christmas.
William Paley: I'm with you today Ed, and I'm with you tomorrow.
Edward R. Murrow: Funny thing, Freddie, every time you light a cigarette for me, I know you're lying.
Edward R. Murrow: You always were yellow.
Fred Friendly: Better than red.
