Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
You still have a very promising shot at winning, but the only thing left is you making up your mind to take it.
In order to become all that you positively desire to be, you must promise yourself to consistently work harder and smarter than ever.
A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.
I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.
Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.
To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.
Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go.
I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.
No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution—but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.
