The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

Since most of us are just trying to figure it all out, why not be kind and considerate while on the journey?

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.

No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.