To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.
Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet.
And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind.
Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.
A comic book in mint condition is an offense against the multiverse. I only collect damaged comics with torn covers and missing pages.
Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.
In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
