There's a problem of terrorism in the world. There's always been terrorism. There will be terrorism. You have to deal with it surgically. You have to deal with it in a serious way.

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

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

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.

His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of terror.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.