The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

Sometimes my life is in gray color but sometimes it is just like a rainbow.

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why drugs like Vicodin are legal.

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.