Occupation: Journalist Birth: April 8, 1937
I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themse….
Journalism is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. I was a judge in some award contest ….
I think for the great majority of the American people, they've suffered economically under Obama and they really are looking forward to Trump deliver….
Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and our tax dollars….
In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, ther….
The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agr….
When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months of attacking A….
It doesn't matter what a majority of Americans say. George W.Bush is going to do what he thinks he must do. And history may be tough on him in the ne….
I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the….
Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn't know he's wrong?.
We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of….
The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief ….
I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W. Bush presidency to get a cop….
I would think Trump would feel free to bomb Syria any time he wanted. Nobody clearly seems to care very much about if we bomb Syria. Whether or not w….
We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place..
I think journalist is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting.Newspapers play an amazing ro….
How can you have a security guarantee? The Europeans can give their security guarantees to Iran all they want in return for their stopping their enri….
The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a long time, and yes, there obviously….
I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags..
Grab whom you must. Do what you want..
One of the terrible things about George W. Bush Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news. The neoconservatives are a small circle, and th….