Not one of the remaining political candidates -- not Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, much less John McCain -- talks about significantly downsizing the...
Only about 70 percent of the one million American students who start ninth grade each year graduate four years later. -- Sam Dillon There are two kinds of...
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. -- W.H. Auden John McCain . . . dumped his first wife (the mother...
God forgive America -- Banner unfurled in front of the White House in protest of the Iraq occupation My whole life I have sought deep enduring love. This...
No Child Left Behind['s] . . . stated purpose is to improve public education, but its covert purpose has been to undermine it so that public schools can be...
The heart of progressive-liberal values is simple: empathy (caring about and for people) and responsibility (acting responsibly on that empathy). -- George...
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop Arguments over whether U.S. forces can prevail in Iraq bypass a truth that no amount of media spin...
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -- John Ruskin Solar power is one of the most hopeful...
Let us have faith that right makes might. -- Abraham Lincoln We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most...
Beware when you fight a dragon, lest you become a dragon. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Blessed are the...
Loving your country shouldn't just mean watching fireworks on the 4th of July; loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to...
The share of Americans who describe themselves as Republicans is plummeting so quickly, pretty soon more voters will call themselves Hobbits than Republicans. ...
Daughters . . . make fathers think differently about the world and the future it offers. -- Peggy Drexler Terrorists arise in all cultures, all nations and all...
We are made kind by being kind. -- Eric Hoffer. Health care is a human right, not a commodity. -- Kristen Hannum The world is running out of freshwater . . ....
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. -- George Carlin War will exist until that distant day when the...
Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice. -- Thomas Paine We in America suffer from what I call a democracy...
We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. -- Robert Burton [Wal-Mart's] low prices have helped the working class...
There is damning, hard evidence pointing incontrovertibly to the conclusion that millions are embarrassingly ill-informed and that they do not care that they...
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. -- Bumper sticker They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning forks: nation...
If you would be loved, love and be lovable. -- Benjamin Franklin Hope is not for wimps; it is for the strong-hearted who can recognize how bad things are and...
We must become the change we wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi Wear the old coat and buy the new book. -- Austin Phelps Everyone seems to assume that...
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. -- Rita Mae Brown Better a bleeding heart than no heart at all. -- Anonymous They that can give...
Modern political conventions are like a Super Bowl minus the game. -- Calvin Woodward When authorities say we should not politicize something, they mean that ...
The idea that women are going to race off to vote for any candidate with the same internal plumbing is both offensive and historically wrong. -- Gail Collins ...
Here is a crazy idea to address the United States' gaping fiscal deficit: persuade corporate America to start paying taxes. -- New York Times Editorial They're...
That's the mission of politics: to give our kids as good a chance as we had. -- Garrison Keillor A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. ...
In America, the true patriots are those who dare speak truth to power. -- Teresa Heinz Kerry The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no...
Conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid...
I'm not holding my breath, but I would like to see the self-proclaimed conservative, small government, anti-regulation, free-market zealots step up and take...
What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. -- Adlai Stevenson If we can socialize the banking industry, why...
