“Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.”

“Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.”

“At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.”

“I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley”

“James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.”

“Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”

“If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.”

“I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.”

“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.”