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

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.

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

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

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

You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.

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I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

There's that old saying: Squeeze the juice out of life before life squeezes the juice out of you. I will try to squeeze the remaining juice out of life.