I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

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.

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'