The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.
There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.
I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.
There's a very big difference between negotiating to borrow billions of dollars on behalf of MCA and negotiating to borrow 28 cents in connection with making independent pictures.
Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.
Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.
It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.
Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.
I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.
