People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Find what is beautiful in a person and appreciate it. Ignore what is wrong.

The hated have no reason to love.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.

He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan)

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.