Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.
Wars should be over in three days or less. . . and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.
The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. . . . And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards. . . I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox - but they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and opportunistic and all. There's going to be this glow about them - that's going to be worth maybe 15 points.
American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.
There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.
With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.
Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what you are giving to it. I cannot prove that this is a balance of mathematical perfection, but my own observation of life leads me to the conclusion that there is a very real friendship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of life.
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.
There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such incidents as the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi and the Anglican Church bombing in Pakistan. 911 greatly intensified this tendency toward fusion, but it had also been nurtured by Israeli propaganda that portrayed their Palestinian and Arab adversaries as "terrorists. " In fact, the US government approach after 911 was modeled in many of its features on Israeli tactics developed during the long occupation of Palestine.