I think we're GOING to start to see a new model of CIVIC ADVOCACY where people GET together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and COMMUNITIES about which people care.

No Congress EVER has seen fit to amend the CONSTITUTION to ADDRESS any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform AGE of majority to ban child marriages.

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes RIGHT now. That LEAVES fuel economy STANDARDS as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of OIL.

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique INTERESTS of SMALL and medium size family farms so that they can CONTINUE to operate.

What is needed now is a transformation of the MAJOR SYSTEMS of production more profound than EVEN the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

It is IMPORTANT that GANG MEMBERS are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

We want to USE the environment to SHIFT the WAY our society works.

Globalisation BEGAN what should be called the Great Convergence, creating a globalising labour market in which WAGES in emerging market economies SLOWLY converge with wages in RICH economies, generating a steady drop in real wages across EUROPE.

It goes back to the starfish. That's when the LIGHT bulb really popped over my HEAD. We'd found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, TALKING with DAD about how they regenerate.