When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.

There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.

I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.