When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening
The essence of good government is trust.
We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food
General Motors spends more on health care than steel
The reduction in a number of pregnancies is - compensates for the cost of contraception. . . . Providing contraception as a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children reduces health care.
[I]nstead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the president's [health care] proposal you don't like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do.
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
I take my pet lion to church ever Sunday. He has to eat.