I never thought I'd say this: what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.
If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
As of September 2012, 168 out of the 602 released Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of returning to terrorism. So, is this a winning scenario for the United States? Of course not.
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.
I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.
It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.
I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.
I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.
I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.” {Guy Gavriel Kay}
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
