The Lord does not want us to "miss supper. " In fact, He has a great feast prepared for those who return clean and pure through the door.
Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.
There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.
Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche.
Once you arrive at an interpretation which you are comfortable in giving, no matter how specious it might be, and you are comfortable doing it, you stay there, you just stay there, and the facts are not going to change you.
We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.
The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.
I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.
Have courage. We still have our clan. There is always hope.
So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.
My cultural roots are something illusive.