The media—stenographers to power.

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

...youth looks good in anything

Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know.

From a Higher Point Everything Looks more Little, but Business we do on the Ground.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.

There's a woman protecting herself from the sun with a carousel.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.