We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

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.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

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The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

They wanna know why, I'm so fly, a girl asked me for a ring and I put one around her whole eye I'm looking nothing like ya poppa, I wouldn't give a chick ten cents, to put cheese on a whopper.

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.