Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"
Don't throw away your conscience.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.
I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.
There's a satisfaction in seeing something happen over time.
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me. ' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.