Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

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.

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.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.

Will was dead, but Missouri Ann was going to have a baby. Birth and death were God's way, she told herself. Joy and sorrow were joined together.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.