Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.