If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe.
There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.
I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.
You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.
