No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.