I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together. You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Extreme right-wing "tea party" types are a minority of the Republican party. And Republicans are a minority of the country. And yet they are able to have their way because - in addition to other less ethical tactics - they vote! What must we do to get the more reasonable thinking majority to cast their ballots? A national voting holiday would be a good start.... Step up and save our country. It's your future.