I'm not a predictable black liberal.

When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.

The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.

Doing your homework and being well prepared for appointments is one of the most powerful ways to set yourself apart from your competition to gain and retain new clients.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

Michelle Obama is a powerful example of someone who has learned how to align her actions with her values, manage boundaries across domains of life, and embrace change courageously.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.