My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.

We have to be very careful, we have to be very vigilant but to think that Apple won't allow us to get into her cell phone - who do they think they are? Now we have to open it up.

Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Even monkeys fall out of trees.

I think at the end of a show, you have to walk out with a message. That's my hardest struggle right now; that's what I'm working towards.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.