The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

There's something totally crazy about this.

To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

My father loved people, children and pets.

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

When everything is good, maybe I think it’s the time to do something else.

Hate is a strong word so I don't really hate the quality of somebody, I just don't like being late so I don't like if other people are late as well. Time management is key!

A letter does not blush.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.