More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.