Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.