I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.

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.

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

I've lived nine lives . . . And this is the worst.

I wear [socks and underwear] once and throw them out. Even when I'm home...I wouldn't think of washing them.

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.