Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

Playing a fool is the best paid role.

I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.

Mom laughed. "Well that's why, when it's real, you do whatever you have to do to work it out. Screw stability. Forget common sense. Make a move.

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate.

... because nobody wants to see a small creature left to suffer or left by itself out in the bushes.

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

Many times, my intuition wins. I trust my intuition a lot. A lot.

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you've ever made. If you don't like where you are, start making different choices!

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.