I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.
Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
What the word conservative means is not putting things back but conserving them. There are things that are threatened and you love them, so you want to keep them.
Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do not want to be humiliated by the West. There is a little piece of Putin in everyone.
When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.
I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
As constituents, we've become lazy in terms of what we want and how to get it. If we, as a constituency, don't like what Congress is doing, but 90 percent of incumbents get reelected every year, that's a problem.
Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.
