(Television is) chewing gum for the eyes.

It [television] is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Ed Murrow was always conscious that television's power for good was no greater than its power for evil.

I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the masses, then we may say, with equal justification, that the Age of Television has taken politics away from the adult mind altogether.

Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

We shall stand or fall by television-of that I am quite sure.