Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

What's the point of being better than someone else?