Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
So much of our life is dictated by our mindsets. So much of it! Of how we think, we shall become.
Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development.
At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.
We've been fairly eclectic in our time, and we did branch out. Whenever we got a little bit too far out, people started to moan and groan a bit.
Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.
It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.
To get back to the kind of shared prosperity and upward mobility we once considered normal will require another era of fundamental reform, of both our economy and our democracy.
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense.
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.
