People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.