The American vice is explanation.

I look into my own black heart.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.