I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.
Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.
We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
When people are worried about the future, they don't take trips to Hawaii.
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
There is no substitute for intuition.
Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.