When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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 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.