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"I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them."
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."

"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."

"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."

"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."

"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."

"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."

"The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies."

"People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?"

"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."

"Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point."
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