I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

My heart is crushed, my knees are weakened. My tears drench my pillow, my tears flood my bed every night. Do you know how much I miss you father of my children.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

You couldn't expect anyone else to share your suffering. You had to carry your pain alone.

Any fool can hide, few can play.

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.