If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

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.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.