A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.
The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast. . . " He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.
What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.
The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.