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.

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

Actualize the dreams now and don’t procrastinate them for the future. Use every second, minute and hour that you have to fulfill life’s calling, your purpose, and your dreams.

Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!

respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.