Let's run the experiment.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?''I'm not six mother, I think I can grasp standard sentences.' Whether I chose to pay attention to them however...

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

To know all things is not permitted.

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.

Being God would be the ultimate.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.