Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

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.

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

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.

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

Now I see that it isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.