If you want to eliminate terrorism, you have to address the political problems that gave it birth. -- Charley Reese Most of the calls for "educational reform"...
Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country. -- Bumper sticker Jenna and Barbara are able-bodied citizens well within the age of enlistment....
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. -- Stephen Colbert Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us...
It's a disgrace that in the 21st century in America, we still have so many people who get sick and die, not because their illnesses aren't treatable, but...
Religion is not a two-party system. -- Keila Szpaller Decades ago the Republican Party built its "solid South" with thinly disguised, and sometimes blatant,...
He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how. -- Friedrich Nietzsche We become fully human when we are aware of another's suffering as if it were...
What do you mean, you "Don't believe in homosexuality"? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. -- Lea DeLaria There is a lot of talk now...
If Bush said the earth was flat, the mainstream media would have stories with the headline: "Shape of the Earth -- Views Differ." Then they'd quote some...
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell. -- Robin Morgan Solidarity - an injury to one is an injury to all. That...
There isn't necessarily two sides to a story if only one side has all the verifiable facts on their side. -- David Sirota Fearlessness is not the absence of...
Many corporate executives earn more money in a couple of hours than the average factory worker makes in a year. -- John Robbins Bush created a cohesive enemy...
Politically, it's always been advantageous to divide people, to make America a place of warmongers versus wimps, elitists versus morons, gun nuts versus people...
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. -- Epicurus All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw Teachers...
I did like President Bush's celebration of National Character Counts Week. He went to Pennsylvania to support Rep. Don Sherwood, who is being sued for...
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process...
Teachers now are expected to staff the permanent emergency rooms of our country's dysfunctional social order. They are expected to compensate for what...
It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. -- Bumper sticker Our government...
Iraq burns. We shop. -- Bob Herbert In American work places, bosses routinely snoop into underlings' personal e-mails and monitor our web-surfing practices....
Fairness is a liberal value. Equality is a liberal value. Education is a liberal value. Honesty in government, public service for modest remuneration,...
Happy holidays! Have I just offended you? If you are a member of the American Family Association, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights or the...
Who do you want to be -- Mr. Potter or George Bailey? -- Oliver Willis No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. -- Kofi Annan ...
When Congress passes No Child Left Unfed, No Child Without Health Care and No Child Left Homeless, then we can talk seriously about No Child Left Behind. --...
We can't escape responsibility, there's no sitting out moral decisions, and whenever we refuse to stand up against wrongdoing we're actually supporting the...
All of the tortured, twisted rationales for this war — all of the fatuous intellectual pyrotechnics dreamed up to justify it — have vaporized, and we're...
Conservatives worry that kids today grow up wanting to be porn stars; liberals fear they want to be investment bankers. -- David Callahan Beginning with...
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. -- Susan B. Anthony I'm a...
If Congress doesn't stop this war, it's not because it doesn't have the power. It's because it doesn't have the will. -- Russ Feingold Most conservatives are...
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson I wonder sometimes what galvanizing event will bring Americans out of the malls....
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience. -- Vaclav Havel American suburbia represents the greatest misallocation of...
The fatal difference between corporations and people is that corporations are necessarily irresponsible. It's in the charter. They have to profit . . . Our...
