Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy..

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet..

We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of ou….

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news repor….

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

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy..

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious ….

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system..

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

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." ….

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles..

We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be mad….

For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often ….

The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be c….

And that's the way it is..

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

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good..

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation..

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

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know..

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts..