We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

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.

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.

We must look hopeful.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

Germany must remain Germany.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.