Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.
To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.
It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.
If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.
I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.
I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'
Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
