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

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, 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.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

What good is a reputation not put to good use.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.