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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."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."

"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."

"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."

"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."
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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."

"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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