Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or. . . all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack. '
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the strongernot only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
The trick with sequels is, you have to give people what they liked before, yet be innovative enough so they don't feel like they're seeing the same movie.
How do you know that? (Stryker) I know everything. I feel every heartbeat in the universe. Hear every scream for mercy and feel every tear of pain. (Jared)