An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Calamity was ordained for man.

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.