To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.
I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.
I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.
An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
