Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I raised four kids in six years.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.

Hope is the spotlight that shines on the mine fields of possibility

I love New York City; I've got a gun.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

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