We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

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.

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

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

Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.And alive, for the first time in his life.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

I've been audited for many, many years in a row, which I think is unfair, but that's the way it is.

Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.

Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.