“If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.”

“A third-grader when WWII started, I was also waging my own "war effort." It was deeply magical thinkingI really thought what I did or didn't do could save lives, win battles, bring my dad and uncle...”

“My parents didn't settle for the lives their parents lived. They stepped out and up, my father lying his way into the Navy when he was too young to enlist, my mother marrying this fugitive from the...”

“I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.”

“The Church's obsession with sexual restrictions is and always has been wrong wrong wrong. Wrong to be contemptuous of nave young women like Philomena and me. Wrong to ignore the men involved in cre...”

“Go to any airport in this country and youll see how well our government is dealing with the terrible danger youre in. TSA staffers are wanding 90-year-old ladies in wheelchairs, and burrowing throu...”

“It is time to have real conversations. Even in high crime areas everybody in that area is not committing crimes. Everybody on the police force is not corrupt. Just like everybody in the hospital i...”

“Everybody wants to cut off the limb to to deal with the problem. You cant just keep cutting off limbs and destroying fruit. We have to become committed enough to examine the root. The root of the p...”

“Respect has left our society in so many ways we dont even respect the office of the Commander in Chief as we should. The strength of any building, organization or family must include respect. As a...”

“If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”