To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.