I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

There is no democracy without journalism.

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.