No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.
You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.
If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.
For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.
Luigi Castigliane: This is the girl! Adam Kesher: Hey, that girl is not in my film! Vincenzo Castiliane: It's no longer your film.
Envy Adams: Short answer: Vegans are just better then everyone else.
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
My wife and I started a program called Bears Without Borders. We raise money and hire local artisans to make stuffed animals and distribute them in their communities.
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
