I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.
There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife. "
I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.
They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.
In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.