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.

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

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.

Keep working when grace abound.

The horses have stoppedtheir clippity-clop, but feet are too slowfor where I must go.So here I shall stayuntil light of daywhen clippity-clopgets my team underway.

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don’t want to be in his line of sight when he does.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

I'm much more for style and not trend-driven.

Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!