Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.
I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.
Look at The Beatles: how they struggled, how they worked in order to become such a good little band. And that's why they had such longevity and are still admired today.
Maybe that's some of the reason I feel so good today. Maybe I finally realised that it's just a game.
Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'
Today, television is the most powerful medium in the world. Tomorrow it will also be the most personal. There is no one future for television. It will be defined differently for everyone.
Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.
The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.
Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.
People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.
