Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.