One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.
Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change.
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.
Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control.
My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.
Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
