Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.

Fear deprive us of what we can possess.

I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and productions.

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life.

I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.