CNN stands to make a hundred million dollars more than it's expected lift for the election cycle, due to the phenomenon that is Donald Trump.

I think there's been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people's decisions.

After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions.

People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.

The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.

You know, trust in the press, polls show - from Pew and other places - have gone down significantly over the years. Maybe the press doesn't have that much ability to frame people's decisions.

Trump's - has great negatives, enormous negatives, a lot of people say they simply won't vote for him. So if he's gotten media, maybe it hasn't done him so much good.

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year.I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.