As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Go where there is silence and say something.

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

Our desire is the warmth in our life, it's not a blanket.

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

Just as surely as you can create a thought in your mind, you can create this day in the way you choose.

You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.