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The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.
The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.
Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.
Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.
Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.
What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America
I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.
I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.
Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.
The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.
The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.
When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.
That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job.' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.
You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend, the economist Julianne Malveaux, says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved.
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.
Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.