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 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.

[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

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people.

What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila.

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.