For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone sees the invisible
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine. . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned. " That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.
Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.
Space is our tool to take care of the world. From space, we know the Earth is fragile, and we can follow oil spills and forest fires, and monitor the environment and save it. The needs of remote communities and the needs of astronauts are similar. Canada is a country that is big and has a lot of people living in faraway places. Physicians in remote areas need to have contact with more senior colleagues. We depend on telehealth for advice, X-rays, labs. At the most simple technical level, space technology contributes to remote health care.
If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.