Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
Ellen Griswald: We're not really violent people. This is our first gun. Clark Griswald: No, it isn't.
International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.
The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.
I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.
It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.
Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
