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"As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."
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"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."
"On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there."
"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody."
"We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."
"If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available."
"I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four."
"I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story."
"People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story."
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