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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can't trump bad policy.
My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, 'Hi, Chelsea.'
I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.
I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.
My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.
Tim Ryan does not look like the 21st century democratic party. And should that matter?
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.
I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.
The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.
Trump's rise is troubling not just on an American level but on an international level.
But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?
Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.
Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.
From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
If I were to say anything to my 18-year-old self, it would be, 'Loosen up. Chill out.'
Thailand was a revelation to me; the landscapes, the culture, the food and the people.
Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
One thing is clear: My life is completely different than it was before the kidnapping.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits
He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.
The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.
All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.
One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.
I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.