Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.

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.

Don’t work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don’t make work your whole life.

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.