There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.
Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.
There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.
I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'
I just try to play make-believe and pretend the world is magical and awesome as much as possible.
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach. . . or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there. . . any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.
Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.
My hope was that by saying clearly to Saddam Hussein, "we're going to enforce UN Resolutions," that he would make the decision to leave peaceably and at least allow for inspectors to come into his country, and if he chose not to, there would be a military option. I want people to understand that the military was my last option. I had a strategy and hopefully solving the problem peacefully - and it wasn't just me, it was a coalition of nations that were involved.