The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

I came, I saw, I was confused.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

Your imaginations are not beyond creation, only God's imaginations exceeds all creation.

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

By endurance we conquer.

Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.