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Hodding Carter Quotes

«There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.»
«Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.»
«Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.»
«Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.»
«The purpose of Sunshine Week is twofold: one, to make clear the extent big government has been curtailing the flow of information and news to the public, and two, to let people know ways to deal with this type of government behavior.»
«What is happening, especially at the highest levels of government, is basically un-American. Americans should be treated as owners of their government and of their government's information, not as supplicants to whom you dole it out when you feel like it.»
«We have neither a congressionally declared war, nor a nation on wartime footing, nor an enemy who has the capacity to destroy us by invasion.»