"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."

"Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer."

"An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike."

"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."

"You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone."

"My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."