Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.