If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.