One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation between church and state has helped us fine-tune.
I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's even better, because we can spend those incomes on more goods and services. That's called the circular flow of the economy.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.
Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.
We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.
'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Our Quakers love us. we're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.
Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
