Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig's blood.

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.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.