Ted Cruz announcing he's no longer never [Donald] Trump.

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.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

So many people are missing their way in life because they are afraid to sign the lease on their gift.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

Does Donald Trump accept the results and concede graciously, pursue legal action, or tell his followers to take to the streets?

I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.