I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists.

To be free is to have Faith.

You only need to steal a woman's heart if she won't give it to you willingly.

The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.

I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?