We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.

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.

To storm, a mind, it must be balanced, by what can't be it must be challenged...

Honesty is one of the key elements to a great relationship. If you cannot be honest with your partner, stay single.

You can never, never, ever go wrong eating more fruit.

Questioning anything within doubt, will just bring mind to no certainty.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never be anything more than my body. No matter what I accomplish, I will be fat, first and foremost.

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.