Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.