In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives and if periodically you fail as you surely will adjust your lives not the standards.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.