I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there.
'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.
While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.
American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.
I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.
As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.
With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.
Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class ...
