After a battle royale debate, the fight between [Marco]Rubio and [Donald]Trump gets ugly.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

The Umayyad caliphate stretched from Spain to India, making it the largest empire in the world

LSD stands out for learning to slow down.

The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature’s Mom.

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.