The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.