People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.