“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.”

“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...”

“Changing entrenched systems is daunting; the odds against reshaping the nation's police forces are high. But there are few things more important than making sure their profession is the brave, hono...”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”