Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government... Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people...

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government...

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

All we have is compassion and stories.

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

I'm lucky, always hopeful... I love my life.

Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.