Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. - Walter Cronkite

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause – but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it’s a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they’re not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they’re preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can’t be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.