Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

Beauty without a character is a waste.

Corruption is a resultof low standardson local, national and global level.My works : Petra Cecilia Maria HermansNetherlands, TILBURG, August 17, 2016

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the plurality of worlds will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe.

You should never take more than you give

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.