The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

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.

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.

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

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

Insularity plus time yields divergence.

I want to make my mark, ' he says.But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

Everyone just screams and screams and screams. I have accepted it as real now, but it still feels surreal.

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.