No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.
When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.
Before I ran for district attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I know a party switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues. They never used the words Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare - is it a way of life or a hand up? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car, and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned, we're Republicans. '
We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned. We're Republicans. "
Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.
I've known where my heritage is from all along.
After enlightenment, the laundry.
They wouldn't let me play; only Alice would play games with me anymore.
I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars. . . . And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light. . . . The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.
Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.