I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Go where there is silence and say something.

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

It's hard to tell who's going to win this week, but it probably won't be a big, fat guy.

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.