Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

My special possessions are my sacred family.

Our thoughts and feelings make us whereas love and beauty sustain us.

If human help fails, God will never forsake thee.

I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.