Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.

We must strive to become good ancestors.