Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.