As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.
Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.
The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.
And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.