Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.

Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips into a sort of fundamentalist extremism, in which it's not enough for us to believe what we believe, but we start feeling obligated to, you know, hit you over the head because you don't believe the same thing. Or to treat you as somebody who's less than I am.

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.

My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics.

We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.