I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitima….

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the s….

The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the r….

Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally acce….

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot….

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar..

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does..

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too..

Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive..

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life..

An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidl….

Our children are being raised by appliances..

The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps runn….

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you..

America is the longest argument in the world..

You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own ….

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today..

Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows….

Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detai….

Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even ….