I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion... THEIR religion.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.