It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let that thing build up to the point where our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for our period of time and our years at the helm.

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.

Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.