Pastoral Resources

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

Living in this manner also gave them the opportunity to locate targets and develop methods of attack that would make the most impact on the population, infrastructure, and governments of these areas.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.