In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a moral compact embedded in a political contract or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings.

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness.