Once you start thinking about growth of economy, it's hard to think about anything else.

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.

Choices can help create the human desire for their future. But there are some, who's fate has already been decided.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

I've been through really trying experiences personally, and your family is who you turn to.

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.