There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of 1970, that you will reopen coal mines.
I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
Decadence is wonderful.
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.
I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.