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.

[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.

An overly negative circle is more dangerous to one's future than one's worst enemies.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.

If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer. And all I had? Vanished in an instant.