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

A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.

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

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.