Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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.

The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.

I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

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

Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.