The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

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?

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

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