Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.
Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.
If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.
No matter how beautiful a spot I find myself in, if the food ain't up to much, I won't enjoy myself.
Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.
We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.
The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.
Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.
The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible
My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.
But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.
I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.
I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league.
I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.
We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.
. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.