Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.