Where is the Marco Rubio bump everyone was promised? And it doesn't look very good.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

Community is about sharing my life

We talk a lot about the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. I would add one more…imagination.

The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.