I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

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.

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

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.

I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier

It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.