George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

One must be honest with himself. Then it will be much better than it is now.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Some people don't realize that I've had a career pre-commercials.

I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally open to suggestions.

One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.

The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.