These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.

If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.

When you can, show them, when they can't teach them and when you do remember the only deed worth doing is the one that helps another up.

There are new habits you can adopt starting NOW that make you approachable and encourage other people to engage with you.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

If you wanna leave be my guest you can step Feelin' irreplaceable listening to Beyonce Well, OK, I'll put you out on your bday

I'm getting grumpier all the time.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.