The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.