Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'
Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.
We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise positions in 3-D, not just approximate locations every eight seconds.
It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border - often times after an unimaginably arduous journey - is completely unacceptable.
A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.
As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
