“Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.”

“We can denounce not merely the abuses of power but power itself.”

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”

“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”

“While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.”

“The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.”

“The highest mandate of power is to ensure that it is never abused.”

“If [an FBI agent] abuses his power, we should punish him, and there are laws on the books for that. But just because a power can be abused doesn’t mean you take away the power. Congress can declare war unjustly. What do we do if they do so? Do we take away their power to declare war? No. We somehow reprimand Congress. We vote them out of office. If a senior official or a field agent leaks some personal information on someone, they should go to jail, and they will.”

“Power can be very addictive. And it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.”