After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

I always say my biological clock must be digital, because I've never heard it ticking.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

Every principle has a promise.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.