There is no democracy without journalism.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

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.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness.

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?

Change is not progress.

I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.