No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

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.

If you don’t act out of ‘Inspiration’, ‘Desperation’ will make you act!

The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.

Your first love is like your first language. No matter how many other languages you learn to speak, you can never be as good as in your first.

I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I can reasonably do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.