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Select Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotations

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

All Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotations

Words

Aim, Displeasure, Distorted, Examination, Havens, Inhibited, Please, Realities, Risk, Ruthless, Safe, Should, Universities, Where, Will

Definitions

Aim, Displeasure, Distorted, Examination, Inhibited, Please, Realities, Risk, Ruthless, Safe, Should, Universities, Where, Will