Paul Harvey
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"Paul Harvey Aurandt", better known as "Paul Harvey", was a conservative American radio Presenter/broadcaster for the American Broadcasting Company/ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. From the 1950s through the 1990s, Harvey's programs reached as many as 24 million people a week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations and 300 newspapers.

Harvey's New York Times obituary examined his distinctive radio style:

:[He] "personalized the radio news with his right-wing opinions, but laced them with his own trademarks: a hypnotic timbre, extended pauses for effect, heart-warming tales of average Americans and folksy observations that evoked the heartland, family values and the old-fashioned plain talk one heard around the dinner table on Sunday."

::"'Hello, Americans,' he barked. 'This is Paul Harvey! Stand byyy for Newwws!'"

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I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Mr. President [Richard Nixon], I love you, but you're wrong. (on the Vietnam War).

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

The world to a blind man is his touch. The world to a stupid man is his mouth. The world to a great man is his vision.

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.