While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications.
I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.
I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.
I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
