Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Bruno Bettelheim

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Truth equals our freedom. If we do not have it it appears to someone who even has a small glimpse of truth that we are not.

James Dye

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.

I Ching

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

Gary Webb

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

John Avlon

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

James Dean

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

Curtis Joseph

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Samuel Adams

People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus they're not dead.

George A. Romero

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson