Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.
It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue.
I actually have my first iPhone deformity because it sits on my pinky, and now my bone actually dips in where my cellphone sits.
Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.
Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it.
I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.
I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.
