At the end of the day, I think people are starting to realize that if you say you stand for equality, it has to be equality across the board. It can't just be equality for people who look like me, are my gender, think or love like me. It has to be equality for everybody.

All Shondaland shows have a level of intelligence, a level of humor, a level of pathos and human connection.

I need my president to be prepared to handle all the critical issues our country faces.

I'm one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.

Why do we need to support the food stamp program? Because low-income families experience unemployment at a far higher rate than other income groups. Because cutting nutritional assistance programs is immoral and shortsighted, and protecting families from hunger improves their health and educational outcomes.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.