“The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841”

“What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their day-the theaters have had their day-the temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great heaven , and save more from Hell, than all the churches and chapels in New York-besides making money at the same time" "Shakespeare is the great genius of the drama, Scott of the novel, Milton and Byron of the poem, and I mean to be the genius of the newspaper press." James Gordon Bennett, editor ot he New York Herald in 1841”

“New York, the nation's thyroid gland.”

“I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live.Where's that?Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there.”

“That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.”

“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.”