Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

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.

to want any woman so badly was unwise, let alone his enemy's daughter." An Artful Seduction

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

When [Jesus] wanted fully to explain what his forthcoming death was all about He didn't give a theory. He didn't even give them a set of Scriptural texts. He gave them a meal.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.