The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.
The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.
The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.
Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.
Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
