The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the …

- Bob Herbert

I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining abo…

- Bob Herbert

I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

- Bob Herbert

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

- Bob Herbert

There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact…

- Bob Herbert

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the cr…

- Bob Herbert

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, the…

- Bob Herbert

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

- Bob Herbert