One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.
I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.
It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
America can compete with anyone in the world as long as the playing field is level. China's been cheating over the years. One by holding down the value of their currency. Number two, by stealing our intellectual property; our designs, our patents, our technology. We will have to have people play on a fair basis.
"When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no - and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. "
Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of a character in a single conversational exchange, or show us the gulf between his soulful heroine and her dull-witted husband in a sentence (and one that, moreover, presages all Emma's later experience of men). (. . . ) This is one of the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to live a diminished life.