There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. – Paul Wellstone
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. – James Russell Lowell
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each others pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. – Ambrose Bierce
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, its helpful. So the fact that there wont be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, thatd be helpful. – John Cusack
Surely all art is the result of ones having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Im not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children theyll have, immediately the floor will rise. – Christopher Hitchens