"I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is."

"As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing"

"When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies."

"A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it."

"It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing."

"Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power."

"I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington."