The American people can always be trusted with the information.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

There is no democracy without journalism.

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

if only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place

To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

Think not of what you did yesterday, but what you can do for yourself today.

There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.

I don’t have a problem with men disposing of their genitals, but it does not make them women, in the same way that shoving a bit of vacuum hose down your 501s does not make you a man.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.