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.

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.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Patience is the best medicine.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.