It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.