People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope that he brings out in American citizens that we are all hungry for, that people get excited about Sen. Obama.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.