He was almost joyously what he had always been, a lot of gee whiz, it was all new and fresh even when surely he had seen much of it before, and it was as if he took delight in not having been changed externally by all that he had seen.

— David Halberstam

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

— David Halberstam

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

— David Halberstam

He was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

— David Halberstam

He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.

— David Halberstam

His was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,

— David Halberstam

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

— David Halberstam

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

— David Halberstam

If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.

— David Halberstam

(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),

— David Halberstam