Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?

If you know everything, it's the end, no?

I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.'

People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works