I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.