There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.
Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.
There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.
And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.
For decades the G. O. P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.
Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.
I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.