Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.