The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1, 400 years.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

There is no free market in oil.

Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.