Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.

I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.