And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.