American Journalist Quotations | Page 5

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.

But a distinctive voice is important. I don't think I realized this as a young kid, but I do remember listening to those voices.

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

I think because we were there when it was a very knew and different form of television, we are forever going to be linked with MTV and video music.

I think as long as the vast majority of people think I'm doing a good job, even if they don't agree with me, then I'm doing my job right.

The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.