That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.
The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
I believe that climate change represents one of the greatest threats to our national security and our planet.
We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.
In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
