To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
We're having this conflict in Syria is because [Vladimir] Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe.
Republicans also have to start to look at talent recruitment. Eight years ago Barack Obama was a no-name state senator. So I think we need to look outside the Beltway and start to look at a younger, more diverse pool of people and tap them to run for office instead of continuously tapping the same type of self-funder individual that Republicans seem to go after every time.
Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.
I think Republicans forgot how to communicate with the American people.
I'm OK with guns in schools, if it's a security, trained security personnel. But every teacher having a gun, I don't know if I can jump up and down on that one and fully get behind it.
Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well.
The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.