“It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.”

“He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.”

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.”

“When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.”

“I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.”

“The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.”

“The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?”