Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.
Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.
