At the basis of a country's immigration policy is the recognition that a country has the right to pursue its interests first, and whenever it wishes to be altruistic and humane, this is instantiated without ever risking the danger of its citizens and/or its cultural values.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.
Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
Prosperity is right. Amen. We prosper to prosper others. We prosper to prosper God's kingdom, so come believing.
The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.
The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.
The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.
Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.
I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.
First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.
I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader candidacy was extremely energising and a terrific phenomenon in American life, and I hope he continues.
The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.
That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.
There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.
