America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.