Journalist Quotes

The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.
The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully.
The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.
The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.
There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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