Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery.

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.