The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.

Politics is a substitute for violence.

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

I'm quite a fan of British designers.

Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.