“Got to kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight”

“Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.”

“All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.”

“Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.”

“Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.”

“You gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight (Barenaked lades)”

“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”