The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.
As Eric Weitz argues, the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was not responsible for the Reich; it was a democratic, socially aware and progressive government, way ahead of many other European governments in its introduction of workers' rights, public housing, unemployment benefit and suffrage for women.
I will work tirelessly to ensure our public lands are managed and preserved in a way that benefits everyone for generations to come.
Though I am associated in the public mind with glamorous songs and dances, my appearance in 'Company' is in no way glamorous. Rather than rely on my body language, the number zooms in on my facial expressions.
If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed ourselves, while changing the way the remaining land is farmed. Instead, governments almost everywhere pour public money into planetary destruction.
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.
There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.
Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.
Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
In retrospect, 'Pulp Fiction' isn't just the template for everything Tarantino has done but the yardstick by which everything else he does is measured one way or another.
I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.
Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.
