I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.
Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.
I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.
There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.
Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.
When we were attacked militarily it was our duty to defend our country.
. . . these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.