It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

Nothing's ever simple. I just don't want you to ignore possibilities out of fear. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, believing that somebody's going to catch you.

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy.

I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.