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• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
• There is no such thing as a little freedom.Either you are all free,or you are not free.
• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media,a lot of competition,and we seem to be moving away from that.
• In seeking the truth you have to get both sides of the story.
• Americas health care system is neither healthy,caring,nor a system.
• I covered the Vietnam War.I remember the lies that were told,the lives that were lost-and the shock when,twenty years after the war ended,former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
• A journalist covering politics,most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting.That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
• With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy,tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random,our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.
• I have never voted a party line.I vote on the individual and the issues.
• I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam,and it was that we better get out of this.
• Court proceeding,except for certain limited situations,are open to the public.This is for the protection of the accused,to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.
• I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
• I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast,for instance,were unsponsored and unrated.
• I think that our comfort is in our history.
• I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious,serious mistake.
• Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means,we would eliminate it.
• With all this dolling up and featuring of the news,it's getting harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
• Under the Constitution giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
• I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
• We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
• On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
• The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
• There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

• America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
• "Well thank you very much, I didn't expect birthday greetings from outer space.
• I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.
• Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
• I am in a position to speak my mind.And that is what I propose to do.