"Just when we desperately need an angry black man..."

• "It's so easy to advocate war in this country. What's in the water? There's no learning curve, we're right back in the same old ball game."
• "We still don't know that much about 9/11 if anybody cares... "
• "If Obama wants to be a two-term president he really needs to start acting like a one-term president"

And on being a "weeding" reporter:

"Access is the reality of our business. A lot of other reporters are just pandering. Carrying the water..."

-Seymour Hersh at the keynote for Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy conference.