Something changed between the two men, namely [Donald ] Trump started slinging mud on Twitter about [Ted] Cruz's wife, Heidi, including a mean comparing her looks unfavourably to his own.

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.

We’ll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

Home is where one starts from.

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten.

I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?

Everybody expects to have a filmic experience when they're watching television, whether they're watching network, basic cable, premium, or streaming.

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader.