[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

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.

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.

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.

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin

Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.