But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.
Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.
I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.
Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.
Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
