You are His disciple; you are His friend. By His grace He will do for you what you cannot do for yourself.
Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.
The curious fascination in this job [U. S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.
The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.
When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax. '. . . The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.
Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.
The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.
Now Spring returns; but not to me returns.
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?