Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.
No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.
I think it is very important for any U. S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.
We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech. . . As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere. . . When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.