Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand and serve their nation... really wipes away the distractions of some of the petty things we think are important at home.
My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.
A Christian without a God who hears them? That's not a place that one who truly serves Christ wants to find themselves.
I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
