Pastoral Resources

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.