Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

It's very important, who has the most delegates. The superdelegates should not be the ones making the decision.

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

We have started calling him grandfather.