The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters.

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.

I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.

There's a lot of gray area in the law. Who can say, without a doubt, that I was in the wrong?