Amanda Ann Klein:

The success of "Candid Camera" was inextricable from postwar America's newfound obsession with unlocking the motivations behind why people do what they do. The trauma of the Second World War led to the hope that hidden cameras and carefully constructed scenarios might unlock the secret to human behavior, both good and evil. Voyeurism was to answer all of our questions; reality television would help us know the unknowable.

Phil Klay:

It's only during frightening times when you get to find out if your country really deserves to call itself the 'home of the brave.'

David Cole:

If the American people object long enough and loudly enough to an electoral system that allows the rich to run roughshod over the interests of the rest of us, the system will change. The answer, in other words, lies with us.

Decius:

It's important to understand that it isn't Congress that must change -- it is us.