The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.
I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.
