President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength and judgment and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

The Constitution as originally drawn made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career and I played all the songs that are referenced in ''94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

If modernist naturalism were true there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference or political power and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas and I like that definition but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

In science read by preference the newest works. In literature read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

When I speak of 'cycles ' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity if not in the resolving of problems than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

As a politician you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me and if they aren't rooting for me they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse it may work and it may not but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not either winning or losing.