The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
Foreign policy always has more force and punch when the nation speaks with one voice. To remain secure, prosperous, and free, the United States must continue to lead. That leadership requires a president and Congress working together to fashion a foreign policy with broad, bipartisan support. A foreign policy of unity is essential if the United States is to promote its values and interests effectively and help to build a safer, freer, and more prosperous world.
President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.
You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail. ” --Colonel Korn, Catch-22
I think that there are excesses that exist in all societies. I won't say it's normal to have them, but it's natural to have them. I'm watching very closely. . . what Snowden has done. I don't know him personally. I wanted to talk to him, but all of the security people didn't allow me to. But I think that he took the wrong approach to a very right thing which he was doing. Just the implementation was wrong. There was a clear platform to what he was doing, although of course that there were some mistakes made.
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions. . . We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.