This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Where is Aelin. Where is my wife?

I'm not going to lie: there are no good options here.

Namaste means that whatever is precious and beautiful in me honors whatever is precious and beautiful in you.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption.

The Savior taught us to love not only our friends but also those who disagree with us- and even those who repudiate us.

My dad's not a big talker.