The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power.

This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

To me, polls are like approval ratings for presidents are like an offensive line, right. And if an offensive line is weak, that means the defense is empowered and emboldened.

I may be a little old-fashioned, but I actually believe that if you live and work in our house and you work on our payroll and you take oaths, then integrity matters in elections.

If Hillary Clinton wins the race, she will win it with the most diverse coalition that anybody's ever been elected by in presidential history.

Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

We ought to walk in the bright light.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.