The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

You become great when you are eager to find and nourish greatness in the hearts of others.

And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for.

Flowers are so inconsistent!

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.

The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.