The Republican Party is officially a dumpster fire.

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.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

I'm not maximized yet.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.