Robert Scheer

“And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.”

“For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.”

“That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.”

“They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.”

“The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.”