I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

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.

A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.

When all else fails...try smoking a good cigar and have a stiff drink. If that doesn't work...have another.

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.

I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.