Successful movements also need an organisational model that allows them to keep growing.

I might find myself standing, transfixed, by the roadside, watching a sparrowhawk hunting among the bushes, astonished that other people could ignore it. But they might just as well be wondering how I could have failed to notice the new V6 Pentastar Sahara that just drove past.

Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.

Places that have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast scale. The ecosystems of land and sea could recover, not just in pockets but across great tracts of the planet.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

When foreigners struggle for their freedoms, they've long expected the U.S. government to be the first to stand with them.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.