I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.
You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.
Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.
Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?
The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.
Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.
The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.
