The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

There is no free market in oil.

Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

I'm not really a music guy.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.