The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

Rules for navigating the net, Or people will roll their eye Lest you can't roll the R rect: Literally, don´t dink and dive!

Don't get pissy with me leech." With a glare, Carrow pressed her print to his torque. "Even tapped out, I can still do a love spell to make you fall in love--with the sun.

We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.

Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.