It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free.

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.