And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

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.

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.

I need them and they need me to need them

he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

Nothing's better than a picnic.