Daniel Keys Moran quotes:

Police do not belong in war zones.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.

I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.