Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

There is no democracy without journalism.

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.