Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to.

The strangest thing [to sign] has to be parts of [fan's] anatomy. But mostly female.

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

Changing your life means changing your past.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.