War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

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.

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

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

Politics is not an exact science.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

I watched a bunch of kids movies on Christmas. I was kind of joking with our family by asking, "Is anyone allowed to die in a kid's movie anymore?"

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.