I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.
The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.
Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions.
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.
I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.
If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.
The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, an...