I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

As president, Clinton will continue to oppose TPP until it dies.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.

People from the past belong to the past not to the place which you're heading

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.

The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?