"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other"

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies"

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies"

"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot"