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

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.

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.

Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!