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.

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.

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.

Positive strength, positive action.

We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.

In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Life is not yours to take.

An angel; or, if not, An earthly paragon.