America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.

I never had a chance to learn how to drive.

Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.

We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.

Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.