I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind, particularly as you approach college. But don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out. |
I don't think people have the right to be angry, if they look at the whole thing. But if they get a selective part of my comment, I can see why they would be angry. If somebody thought I was advocating that, they ought to be angry. I would be angry. |
I was putting forward a bad argument in order to put it down, ... They reported and emphasized only the abhorrent argument, not my shooting it down. |
I was putting forward a hypothetical proposition ... and then said about it, it was morally reprehensible to recommend abortion of an entire group of people. |
If at first you doubt, doubt again. |
If I were a Jew watching what CNN just led in with, I might be a little upset, too. But CNN doesn't have the solicitude for Jews it has for Muslims. Your policy is not to show these cartoons that were shown in Denmark, but to show one after another of the most anti-Semitic cartoons they could come forward with. |
If it comes across that Clinton is weaseling the law and obscuring the truth, I think he's in more trouble, |
If it comes across that Clinton is weaseling the law and obscuring the truth, I think he's in more trouble. |
If Senator Lott can provide a satisfactory explanation for his statement, this entire episode should be forgotten. If he cannot, he needs to step down as the Senate majority leader. |
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. |
If we have full employment and greater economic growth -- if we have cities of gold and alabaster -- but our children have not learned how to walk in goodness, justice and mercy, then the American experiment, no matter how gilded, will have failed. |
If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits. |
In my position it is hard to say exactly how many students are affected but certainly a significant portion of the student body is affected. |
In self-discipline one makes a "disciple" of oneself. One is one's own teacher, trainer, coach, and "disciplinarian." It is an odd sort of relationship, paradoxical in its own way, and many of us don't handle it very well. |
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies. |