Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.