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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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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"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."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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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."

"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."

"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody."

"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."

"People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry."
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