Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about.

Sure, there was no guarantee any of these things would actually happen as he envisioned. But maybe that wasn‟t the point.It was the planning that counted, whether it ever came to fruition or not.

Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.