Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Obama's capping of troop numbers and campaign end-dates in theaters of war such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Mattis also appears to be a skeptic of the Obama-era policy of putting women into combat roles.
I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.
Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.
I've never been a big believer in formal education.
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.
I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
Honesty has always been very important to me.
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.
At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.
Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.
The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.
Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.
I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'
It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.
The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.
I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.
