When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Very often, we let little things spoil some of our most important treasures—our Moment, our Day, our Life.

The children of Spirit are laughing, cursing, chatting, walking and running. They ooze holiness in all that they are and do.

You don't find Truth, but Truth finds you. ☥

If I can't have your babies, I'll damn sure deliver them!

When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.