Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

Death chose each of us - both Dark and Light - for a reason. There can't be Light without Dark or Dark without Light.

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.