We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane…

If legislators come to believe that police power is an ever-present constitutional trump card they can play whenever it suits them, overreaching is inexorable.

— Don Willett

When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think…

— Allen W. Wood

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world…

— Henry Miller

Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are…

— Michael Sandel

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

— George Will

The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty,…

— Justin Adams

The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government…

— Elizabeth Holtzman

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

— Russ Feingold

I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching…

— Michael Sandel

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who…

— Euripides

With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of…

— George Will

My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other…

— Anne Hathaway

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of…

— Horace Mann

'Obamacare,' as it's been called, is far too reaching. It's overreaching. It needs to have a lot of it repealed.

— Joe Manchin