I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.
Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.
War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican, Democrat, or other. The fact is, these parties are prey to special interests. That is something Eisenhower was afraid of.
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.
Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.
He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.
Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.
There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.
I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
People who make mistakes but try their best, other people will support. But people who make mistakes because they're lazy, nobody supports.
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
