The movies that are honored at The Oscars are always a certain type: Old-fashioned. It's a bunch of well-made, old-fashioned movies that support our idea of ourselves. They uplift the human spirit. That's why horror films never even get nominated.
Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
It's not a crime to get drunk.
The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.