By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

Each of us has an undeniable responsibility to ourself and the rest of the world to be our personal best on any given day.

You can't make a difference, if you don't know what it is.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

I never neglected my daughters - quite the opposite - but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

There's never been anybody in the history politics in America that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.