The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.