We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

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.

It’s not something he can do anything about, being a bleeder, anymore than a guy with a glass jaw can do something about not having whiskers.

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

You must always work.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.