You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

There is no democracy without journalism.

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).

Happiness is like a ripple. If you're the origin, you will get happiness back with same frequency.

I sing a beautiful song quietly in my heart.

You have to know your goal to reach out for it.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

I just want a life that's full of up-leveled joy. And I'm ready to meet a nice man! Put that out there, too.

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.