I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!

If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

Freedom' means a lot to conservatives, but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from - freedom from government, freedom from regulation - and precious little about freedom to. Freedom to is absolutely something that has to be safeguarded by good government, just as it could be impaired by bad government.

Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.

Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change?

The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is 'Good without a God,' created the National Day of Reason with the Washington Area Secular Humanists to raise awareness about government threats to religious liberty and up the profile of the non-religious community.