If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.