When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

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

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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