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Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

Journalism is not writing.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.