If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

My whole world started to tilt. I could feel it, sliding ever so slightly off center.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best – all I could do.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

Don't convince yourself you're over, don't convince yourself you're done, just because the things around you seem heavy, doesn't mean you can't get off this ground.

What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.