Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.

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.

It’s a picture of hope because the kid without his legs? The one burned and cut and deathly pale? He lived.And he’s going to be fine.

No knowledge can summarize humans in one premise.

I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.

If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end.

One stupid act of some stupid extremist puts us all down.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.