Michael Harrington

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.