A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.