Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
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.
I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.
Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
There are children who recognize that they have a special role, and they enjoy it. But there are also many who sense that they can't do what the others can do, and they're happy to be placed in a protected school. It depends on their personalities.