The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.
There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers
I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.
Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.
What we're trying to look for is a process that is not responding to political pressures, but one that is responding to economic reality, because I do believe. . . that it's in the best interest of the Chinese people to allow a market-based currency.
Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability. " I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.
Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.
I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.
The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.