Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.