No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.