I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

I became a journalist because one didn’t have to specialise.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

We are all the President’s men.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.