I like beer
The Senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional.
My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.
It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority… averts all dangers from my path… if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner’s legitimate interests.
I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
President Reagan put it best: Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars – they would think the country has gone insane.
The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives – and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
I believe the measure of a man isn’t just the road he’s traveled; it’s the choices he’s made along the way.
Every day, you have the power to choose our better history – by opening your hearts and minds, by speaking up for what you know is right.
I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life – on human life.
When I see people go at the President, why not try love, for one person to stand up against all odds and just hug somebody the way that Alice Johnson hugged her family when she got out of jail?.
Poor people are basically superfluous for wealth production, and therefore the wealthy want to get rid of them. The rich also frighten everyone else, because if you’re afraid of these people, then you submit to state authority.
So there was basically the same kind of conflict in Peter as Yeltsin had with the Supreme Soviet [parliament]? Yes. But it is important to note that there wasn’t the same division between the law-enforcement agencies that there had been in 1991. The FSB11 leadership-Viktor Cherkesov was the head-announced their support for the mayor from the start. The FSB introduced a number of measures advocating the arrest of extremists who were plotting provocations, planning to blow things up, or trying to destabilize the situation. And that was the end of it.
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
