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

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

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.

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith.