Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.

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

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

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

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.

I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.