The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

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.

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

Is it the sea you hear in me, Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?

Necessity knows no rules.

The task I'm trying to achieve, above all, is to make you see.

I am a defensive tackle that no matter the situation, even if it is in nickel, I can go in there and rush the passer. And I can help the team out on first and second, too. I will get pressure.

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are.

I don't talk people into the Kingdom, I listen them into it!

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.