Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is.
The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.
The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.
Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.
What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
