That scraping noise you hear? It's the sound of sheepish voters creeping out to the garage late at night, furtively removing "Bush- Cheney 2004" bumperstickers...
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy. --...
Over the past four years, our nation has taken on many of the same characteristics of an unsupervised schoolyard, where the majority rules and that group often...
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and an...
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided. -- Montesquieu If we don't fight hard enough for the things we...
Watergate's dirty tricks were mainly prompted by the ruthless desire to crush the political competition at any cost . . . but this administration has upped the...
Who's the Girlie-Man Now? -- Robert Scheer, to Arnold Schwarzenegger on the defeat of all of his statewide referenda True compassion is more than flinging a...
I'm not anti-Bush; I'm anti-Bush behavior. In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and...
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took...
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. -- Margaret Cho If you're looking to defraud, delude, double cross, dupe, embezzle, ...
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. -- Henry David Thoreau I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying...
I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences...
Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were...
Go to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the...
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel The fundamental conflicts in human life...
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- Groucho Marx Beware when you fight a dragon, lest you become a dragon. -- Friedrich...
I belong to a generation of working mothers who traded depression for stress. -- Ellen Goodman Any President who maintains that he is above the law - and ...
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. -- Franz Kafka We have gone from being lied to about the war to being spied on for protesting the war. --...
The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin The blessing of a bigoted, political God isn't worth having. -- Deepak Chopra...
The pharmacists who want "freedom of conscience" to refuse to fill legal prescriptions for women seeking contraceptive devices are no different from the diner...
Women, like men, have a duty to their minds and talents and selves that cannot be fulfilled by living vicariously through husbands and children. An equal...
I decided to talk to a couple of gay people myself to see if they'd reveal to me the Gay Agenda. I confess I did not speak directly to the Head Homosexual, but...
Poverty is the worst form of violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi In the developed world . . . we speak of nature as if we are not part of it. -- James Carroll There is...
Moms and dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasize this enough: don't let your kids go hunting with the vice president. I don't care what kind of...
Support our troops in the only way that word support can have real meaning -- by saving their lives, their limbs, their sanity. By bringing them home. --...
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus We liberals need to make a distinction between...
Life is a long lesson in humility. -- James M. Barrie Whatever a movement to abolish torture will achieve for society, it is clear what participating in it...
Watching a true American hero hang a For Sale sign on his principles is a profoundly sad thing. -- Arianna Huffington, on John McCain selling his soul to...
The immigration issue is mainly hurting the Republican Party, which is divided between those who want to expel immigrants and those who want to exploit them. ...
God help us all if he bombs Iran. -- Cenk Uygur War is a coward's escape from the problems of peace. -- Rev. William Sloane Coffin Why are millionaires getting...
