The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.

I'm accustomed to toxicity and can’t control myself when I’m near it.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

I do my best to answer all questions that they might have as well as make appearances at camps and what not.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.

I'm a bisexual; I get it maybe twice a year.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.