The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Politics is history in the present tense.

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

...evoking memories, particularly of days gone by.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.