In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

Positive words are well spring of hope and healing.

To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.

Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on.

An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.