I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers. I'm hopeful that new business models will emerge that allow the newspaper culture to genuinely thrive in the digital age.

I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on the Internet, I do think there is still some considerable hope that the full participation of individuals in that conversation of democracy can once again restore the integrity of the way our democracy works.

I would kiss Tipper much longer.

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.