Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?

The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!

THIRTY–ZERO! TAKE THAT, YOU DIRTY, CHEATING —” “Jordan, if you can’t commentate in an unbiased way — !” “I’m telling it like it is, Professor!

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.

I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.