Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

- Daniel Schorr

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

- Daniel Schorr

Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune…

- Daniel Schorr

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

- Daniel Schorr

All news is an exaggeration of life.

- Daniel Schorr

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

- Daniel Schorr

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

- Daniel Schorr

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

- Daniel Schorr