The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

Knowledge is the most beautiful manifestation of the human mind.

I can sacrifice everything for my dreams and goals encourage me or simply leave me.

I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.

Love should mean, never having to ask, "Do You Love Me"?

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.

How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends.

I love energy and people; gosh I love people even when they got on my nerves.