Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us; allow our leaders to use the fear of terrorism to make us afraid of the truth; cease to think and reason together, allowing others to tell what's in God's mind.

Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

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.