Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.

I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.