Hodding Carter Quotations

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

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.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.

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.

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

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.