Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.

Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear