I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it's "important" that we reduce the influence of money. Yet 91 percent think it's "not likely" that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what's right to do yet don't think it can or will be done.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?