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Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.
A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.
In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin.
In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up.
Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.
Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.
It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.
Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.
All in all, we might think we like choice, but the question of which choices count and which do not is very, very tricky.
If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.
When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.
Jesus said that when confronted with Caesar's coin, to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's but unto God what is God's.
The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.
The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.
I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.
All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
I care about dental care, and ending mass private and public surveillance, and funding schools so they can have small class sizes.
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.
If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.
This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.
Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.
As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.
We need to pressure lawmakers to hold hearings on pending mergers, and pressure federal and state enforcers to use their full powers.
New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.
I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can't trust the federal government.
People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.
When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.
If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.
The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place.
So one of the things I want to focus on is how we can show how taking on private financing is taking on this fundamental democratic threat.
Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.