George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

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Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose!

The strength within us comes from God.

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.

You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.