In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.