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What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
Our efforts to preserve and protect the Alamo are first and foremost about preserving and protecting the story of the battle itself.
Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live
Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
I never, never ever make a charge without supporting it. You may not agree with me, but I always offer tremendous amount of support.
The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.
I truly believe in the law of attraction and that we live in a multi-dimensional existence beyond the confines of ego-based thinking.
We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.
In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.
There's no question that I have always wanted to be mayor. I know I am strategically not supposed to be saying that, but I don't care.
We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.
There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.
The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.
Sometimes political correctness runs amok in our public education system where we think that every kid can go to a four-year university.
Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!
If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.
I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
I myself am Catholic, and many Catholics have values that are a priority for Republicans, especially as they relate to marriage and life.
We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.
A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.
It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant
The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.
Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.
One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it
My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.
It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.
I think it's certainly important that we don't have symbols in our society that are offensive to a segment and that arouse racial division.
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
There was nothing wrong - and everything right - with analyzing a law that establishes boundaries on interrogation in the war on terrorism.
One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.
The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.
The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.
Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.
The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
My family has always said... if you're going to get into politics, do it for the right reasons, not because you've got to carry on something.
The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.
What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.
Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.
We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.