I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.
Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.
It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
I love fried chips, but they weren't good for you, and I didn't like the healthy options like rice chips.
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.
You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
