Joshua Johnson, host of 1A radio show replacing Diane Rehms, quoted in the Washington Post:

I think from before I was old enough to know what I was onto, I was onto the idea that information was a currency, that it was a way to create influence, it was a form of power, it could confer attention, that it could confer prestige, and that it could change the way people interacted with you. It could foster trust. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/meet-joshua-johnson-diane-rehms-successor–and-a-big-gamble-for-wamu/2017/02/01/6ad4eb26-d8d4-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html