But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.
For too long our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work how much it will cost to keep their business running how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
Country's hip it's cool music.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.
Canada's a huge country so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body and unless I am greatly mistaken I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
Measured in time of transport and communication the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
The waste of capital in proportion to the total capital in this country between 1800 and 1850 in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation was enormous.
You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget we don't pay them.
No foreigner has a place asking another people another country to change their constitution.
We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel I think there should be a mandatory draft where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country they can do it but only if they're active informed and engaged.
The Philippines is a terrible name coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.
The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform if we don't change the team and the game plan we won't save our country.