I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

I don't dream of a ceiling fan which is always here spinning above my head. I dream of a cool weather

A human who learns, and practices the art of love as does divinity, is no longer human.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.