I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.

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.

It takes two to have a fight.

Laney, I love you. I've found everything I've ever needed and wanted with you. I'm nothing without you.- Oliver

We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.

I use my experience, my failures, my successes, and help people stay focused.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Crying is not an option.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.