With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant. It's just so deeply rooted in our culture, and there are so many levels that it trickles down from.
It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
What we can control is our readiness.
My colleagues and I met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli military and security officials to discuss our votes against the terrible Iran deal and to reaffirm our commitment to our longstanding alliance.
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there.
Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
We are determined to rebuild the confidence of our people in public institutions and restore the credibility of those elected to serve them.
I think all of our concerts, really, as parties. It's a performance for sure. It's not a recital. It's a celebration of that music.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
We want to renew our vows with our people. We want to reconnect with our people. We want to get our people excited again.
The Roots - we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.
Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.
Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road.
I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.
