Only 39% of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. -- February 2009 Gallup Poll 42 percent of Republicans believe that President Obama was not...
Let's be who we are and not pretend to be something else. -- Edward Kennedy If we had a draft — or merely the threat of a draft — we would not be in Iraq...
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -- Theodore Roosevelt When in the...
One of the greatest threats we face is from people who believe they are absolutely, certainly right about everything and they have the only truth and it was...
Fox News has exited the journalism community this year. It's a purely political player, and journalists ought to start covering it that way. -- Eric Boehlert ...
The nation's punitive approach to drugs has turned us into a penal colony. We lock up more of our citizens per capita than brutal dictators. -- Cynthis Tucker ...
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none. -- William Shakespeare The women's movement never promised us a rose garden or a warm bath of contentment. It offered...
Be ashamed to die till you have won some victory for humanity. -- Horace Mann Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust...
With Sarah [Palin] you get the feeling she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one. -- Robin Williams Every man, woman and child in...
It's dangerous to always think with exclamation points instead of question marks. -- Marty Beckerman The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of...
I believe in an America . . . where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general population or the public actions of its...
Every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal service to the defense of it. --...
Obama Transfers Balls to Lieberman in White House Ceremony -- Andy Borowitz, headline Lobbyists: The Real Persons of the Year. -- Arianna Huffington, for...
Perpetual growth cannot be accommodated on a finite planet. -- George Monbiot The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Go forth boldly...
I remember when there was a moral force at the center of the Democratic Party. -- Marianne Williamson The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of...
If enough people who have money in one of the Big Six banks -- that is, JP Morgan/Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs...
With a single, disastrous 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court has ... paved the way for corporations to use their vast treasuries to overwhelm elections and...
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of nature, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and...
To think is to differ. -- Clarence Darrow The U.S. spends almost as much on military spending as the entire rest of the world combined. -- Glenn Greenwald To...
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea....
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book....
If you think it's a socialist plot, then please drop out of the federal employees health program. -- Sen. Richard Durbin, to Republican lawmakers at health...
In the conservative world view, each individual is on their own. The best society will be created if each of us goes our own way, with absolutely no help from...
What exactly is the Tea Party plan for America? So far, it seems to consist of screaming at people and working to eliminate the social programs whose checks...
Wag more. Bark less. -- Bumper sticker The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times...
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less. -- Lee Iacocca No matter how I...
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. -- Elizabeth Stone Although...
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. . . It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice. --...
The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other...
Beware of the man of one book. -- Benjamin Disraeli Ideology offers human beings the illusion of dignity and morals while making it easier to part with them. ...
