I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'
You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
I read good. I was an English major.
TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.
Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
Love can never be fully explained.
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
