“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”

“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.”

“It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when y...”

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.”

“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“The mediastenographers to power.”

“I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.”

“All new news is old news happening to new people”

“Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.”