The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

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.

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.

When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.