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" My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life. "

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" 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. "

" I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective. "

" As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person. "

" I like women. "

" 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. "

" 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 scripture. "

" It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it? "

" Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already. "

" In politics, reform never comes before crisis. "

" Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he's a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let's not get carried away. "

" As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual. "

" Journalists typically don't carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you're armed, the theory goes, other armed people will consider you a target. "

" Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting. "

" Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully. "

" One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality. "

" I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head. "

" In the Nation of Islam, Akbar Muhammad is a big deal. "

" I am not insecure about being a journalist. "

" There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational. "

" Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight. "

" I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them. "

" 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. "

" People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas. "

" I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12. "

" Canadians are so easily wounded. "

" America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic. "

" In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides. "

" The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up. "

" Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living. "

" I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo. "