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

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.

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.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

His love was a poison: soft and loveable, hideous yet touchable.

I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

He made all countries where he came his own.

We were just looking at ideas of each other.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.