One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence shortages of food water and educational opportunities discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

Of course bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze inefficient incomprehensible and inaccessible.

I think it has other roots has to do in part with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs inequality of possibility and chance inequality of goods allotted to us a kind of general racist unjust attitude that is pervasive.