There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.

I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.