I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

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.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Hey, Carlos, " the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?""It sucked.""Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks."It really sucked, " I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.

Power is a curious thing. Who lives, Who dies. Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, A shadow on the wall.

I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Machinery makes men like itself.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.