We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.