When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.

That's how hospitals get you. You go in to visit and before you know it they got a camera stuck up your butt and they're looking' to find poloponies.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, " said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

Anybody that believes that Adrian Grenier's name is really Vince should probably watch less TV.