...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

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

Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.