There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.