The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.
This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.
The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now.
We all know if we change the bill, it's gone.
Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.
[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.
American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances
If I had a dog, I'd train him to kill on command. And the command I'd use would be, "Is he friendly?"
I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.
I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health care, for resurrecting the Obama presidency. I know they're saying, 'Why are you thanking me? I was so against it, I marched on Washington with tea bags hanging off my Founding Fathers costume, with a gun on my hip and a picture of Obama dressed as Hitler, screaming about his birth certificate. ' And America saw that and said, 'I think I'll go with the calm black man. '