Occupation: Journalist Birth: August 6, 1936
The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another..
People know elections, like television commercials, are not real..
Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100..
The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend ….
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings ….
Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can m….
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys..
Money is power in American politics. It always has been..
A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special plea….
Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others..
Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own ent….
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism….
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back..
Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be ….
The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind..
Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a rece….
The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it..
Efficiency obliterates identity.
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutio….
Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consens….
The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything m….