While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.
Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
