A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
The news is not a game show. We do not need to hear your buzzers.
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
The first rough draft of history.
The function of journalism is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The more you read, the more you know, the more you learn, the more places you'll go.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.