“There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schw...” — Timothy Noah Quote

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain.

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.

I know guys respect work ethic, and they respect the guys that are invested and committed.