I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.
In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.
A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
