If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
We need more competitive races,. . . We need the voice of moderation.
When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them.
You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.
Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.
I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.
. . . religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
To look at the climate crisis alone - and in my view this is an election where we're not just deciding what kind of a world we will be but whether we will have a world or not, going forward. And the climate crisis, for one thing, you know, Hillary [Clinton] has not repudiated fracking by any means, nor fossil fuels.
1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.