When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices are not always the ones heard the loudest in Washington.
The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.
I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.
Ti ameranno molti uomini, figlia mia, ma tutti sbagliati. Perché tu non cerchi l'amore, cerchi stupore, rischi e pazzie. È questo il tuo destino, cara, e guai a te se cerchi di sfuggirlo
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
