I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

My father was not a political animal.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

I'm not anti-immigration.

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

Everyone has someone to call on when they're down, let me be that someone when that ones not around.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.