Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.