It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.