Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.
A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.
I'm running for Congress to reverse Obama's big government policies, to be faithful to the principles on which our nation was founded, and to make members of Congress play by the same rules as the rest of us.
We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed.
I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
