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Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.
Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.
I think Putin's popularity was genuine when he first came to power. He was seen as a welcome relief from the Yeltsin era.
The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.
The fact that our largest presence in the world is our massive military is going to dictate how we engage with the world.
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.
I abhor the rightwing Muslim ideology behind the veils, but I equally abhor the political rightwing xenophobes of Europe.
here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.
Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
Canada join the United States? Where would young Canadians run off to for adventure? Where would Americans run to escape?
Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.
The adorably rubber-faced Ken James Stewart is jumping ship from the Shaw Festival after five years to play Charlie Brown
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.
Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.
The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.
From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.
Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.
At its root, 'quit' means 'to set free' - think of an acquittal in a court of law - and to quit is often to be liberated.
... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.
I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
I don't think a celebrity endorsement gets you a vote, but it opens the door for you to hear the appeal of the candidate.
It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.
In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.