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My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.