The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation.

Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence!

Truth doesn’t need to be defended. Truth just is.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

Mediocrity is contextual.

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

If it's too easy it's probably not love.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.