What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

Your success can’t be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment.

Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

What happened to a dream without a dreamer?

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

Have consideration for wounded feelings.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?