Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

Raising donkeys in the midst of horses will not make them sprinters.

Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds.

The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.

I have not met one living being that has not been the mother of all the rest.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

When in doubt, shoot. That's how I look at it.