Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs.

Believe me...Nothing is bad or wrong, just prove it as right

There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

Being normal is grossly over-rated.

Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man

I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

Home is where the heart is, no matter how the heart lives.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.