Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.