When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.