When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

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.

You are a lamp to give light to people

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied.