I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.