I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.

The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing's for sure - he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.