Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Not all events are stories.

Who shall tell the lady's griefWhen her Cat was past relief?Who shall number the hot tearsShed o'er her, beloved for years?Who shall say the dark dismayWhich her dying caused that day?

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

Justice from Love, and Love from Justice

I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.