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

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.

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.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

There are no veterans, only survivors.

I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do, deserve to lose money.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.