Corporations and businesses [don't] create jobs
Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.
It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
When in doubt, grab power.
Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
I think women are too valuable to be in combat.
I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.
I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
[But if things continue the way they are]. . . the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.
Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.