Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.