It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Politics is history in the present tense.

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.

What are we doing, burying bodies?" Admittedly, this would be a lace to do it. Isolated, off any main roads."Nope. We're going to war.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

I don't write songs, songs write me.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.