Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.

A journey is the way to see and feel the diversity of humanity.

I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

I decline to accept the end of man.