Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.