These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug.

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

It will be important to restore those provisions, those disclose provisions, those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information and papers are made public.

The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government.

The mechanics vary from place to place and from office to office. The handling of SBUs can be different in the same agency just across the hall, one from another. There are virtually no standards.

The fear of God is to depart from evil.

The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.

I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.