“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

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

“I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism."[Interview with Ron Powers (Chicago Sun Times) for Playboy, 1973]”

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

“No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.”

“Nihilists! I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.”

“It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.”