Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargoCongealed in the dark arteries, Old veinsThat hold Glamorgan's blood.The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

If you climbed one step, it means you can climb the rest.