It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
Internal reform in Russia would require a better relationship with the West.
Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.
No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.
I think the West is in a low point we haven`t seen since the 1930s.
I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.
The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-communist economy. Same people, same advice, with radically different results, which leads to suspicion it's not our advice which was the crucial variable. It was the Poles, on one hand, and the Russians on the other. The Poles succeeded; the Russians didn't. Don't blame us.
Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.
I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1. 5 to 2. 2 million Iraqis through sanctions. Sanctions that Madeline Albright, their illustrious Secretary of State, when confronted with the fact of 500,000 dead Iraqi children, said it was a price she was willing to pay.
The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.
All of our health is basically genetics.