The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

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.

Above us, the constellations spun and the moon paced her weary course. We lay stricken and sleepless as the hours passed.

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.

I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)