Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
The elderly are useless eaters.
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.
Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.
The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory. '
So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language.
The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them.