“In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then.”

By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right… Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right.

The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is.

Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification.

Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.

To correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.

No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach’s St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.

Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we’re the same physically. They’ve done the same kind of training; they are in the same kind of shape. But the one that wins is the person who really believes they can win.

People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn’t share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn’t have, seeing as it’s being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.

You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.

I’m mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I’d be remembered forever. Now, I’ll have to throw him another.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.