You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." [ , 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)]
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion .
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Ch...
The devil is a bad devil.
I never wanted anything as bad as I want you
Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.
Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.
The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.
Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.
It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.
You take a dick and you get it wet and then you put it someplace tight—
Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.
To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.
All bad things, like good things, must end.
