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"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."
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"I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had."
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"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us."
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"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
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"Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents."
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"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."
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"Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use."
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"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent."
Police
"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
Public
"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
Law
"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"
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"I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in."
People
"I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm."
Will
"It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on."
People
"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
Government
"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."
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"There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important."
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