I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.