There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.