It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

The sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and then other people start attacking them, and then they attack back.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.