I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.