Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.
Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.
While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.
We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.
I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.
Clifford Stern: What is the guy so upset about? You'd think nobody was ever compared to Mussolini before.
Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
If we're afraid to stand in our own skin with those we work with, then how do we lead those who have no voice at all?
