...the United States at this point is at the very bottom of all the rich countries in being generous to others. |
A cowardly attack on innocent civilians brought us an unprecedented level of cooperation and understanding around the world, |
A repetition of the problems of 2000 now seems likely, ... Some of the state's leading officials hold strong political biases that prevent necessary reforms. |
a saving factor was that there was no nationwide pattern to favor any one party. |
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. |
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. |
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease |
Also in 2004, there was a substantial aversion of the Democratic leaders to demonstrate - maybe failure is a better word than aversion - to demonstrate a compatibility with the deeply religious people in this country. I think that absence hurt a lot. |
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America. |
An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint. |
an unprecedented and overt ... merger of the church and state, of religion and politics. |
Another thing that we share is a need to earn a living after we leave the White House. Rosalyn asked me to announce, by the way, that our books are still on sale. |
Anyone who runs for President is certainly adequately endowed with both ambition and ego. Sometimes, there are factors that occur in our lives, unanticipated factors, that tend to reduce the level of ego. |
As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students, |
As I am today, I was concerned about human rights, and I was concerned about the well-being of the working people of this country, |