It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.

I know that this story is true.

There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now.

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.

He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does not come across as something peaceful within himself. It's the look of a kind of human volcano, or he'd probably like to describe it as a human nuclear energy plant.

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.