May 16, 1969 - Present
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I\'m not calling for a religious war, I'm calling for an acknowledgement of what's happening.
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
It\'s easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers \'A Love Supreme,\' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy ure.
Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.
American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.
I have no time for political hacks who say things they don\'t believe because they get paid to.
My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.
Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people.
I\'d rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I\'m American. I have no perspective.
There\'s no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.
The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don\'t want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.
The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.
I\'m not uncomfortable around guns - I\'ve hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.
The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.
You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.
The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don\'t know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.
I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter\'s kindergarten class.
People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn\'t been my experience.
Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn\'t very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.
People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for \'sharing,\' or \'initiating a dialogue,\' or \'taking the time to explain this very important issue.\'
There\'s almost nothing that upsets Americans more than the idea that somewhere, somehow, somebody is getting his feelings hurt.
He\'ll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don\'t recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.
I\'ve been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.
People with conservative temperaments don\'t become fighter pilots or presidential candidates - they\'re all that way to some extent.
There actually have never been many shows as equally balanced as \'Crossfire.\'
It\'s normal for people, especially politicians, to expect rewards in return for favors.
All standards are double standards.
Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.
In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from \'The New Yorker,\' \'New York Times\' editorial page, or \'The Washington Post.\'