Top 2011 Quotes

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Imagining the end of things, when you are a child, is perhaps impossible. The thin child, despite the war that was raging, was more afraid of eternal boredom, of doing nothing that mattered, of day af...