Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche.

There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet.

One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

He who wants to go to moksha (Final Liberation), he will have to realize his own self. Otherwise no matter how much of anything else he does, he will not attain moksha (liberation).

A person can’t possibly live without the one person that gave them life.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

Can’t take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can’t give up. Ever.

When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.