“Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.”

“Its not going to be easy, but its kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.”

“Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the banks money and youre just another one of their creditors.”

“We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.”

“War is the most profitable business on earth”

“To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.”

“Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry to survive, Your Honor. Besides the advancement of truth, science and morality in general, the freedom of the press is a backbone of democracy. It exi...”

“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to gu...”

“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words ...”

“Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions J...”

“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speec...”

“It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.”