I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Governmen...
When you think with your human minds and act with your human bodies, you’ll get human results left and right all the time. It’s logical! But when you think and act from your soul, when you live this life like it’s already your eternal life, you...
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.
After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?
I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'
Billy Batts: Hey Jimmy! What's right is right. You understand what I'm talking about? Jimmy Conway: It's all right. It's all right. Billy Batts: No. The kid's over here. We're hugging and kissing over here. And two minutes later, he's acting like a f...
