Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

I mean, I'm the tag of the [ Big Bang Theory ] show! That was one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.

Nerdighters make me believe in America again.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.