Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

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.

Linda Heavner Gerald received a silver medal for Fiction from FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association)

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

We have to modernize how we make laws.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.