If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

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.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

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

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.