Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it.
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.
Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.
Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.
Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.
We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.
Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.
People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.
I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.
