9/11 gave the Bush people carte blanche to carry out their extreme agenda - and they didn't hesitate for a moment to use it... They've used the war on terror to justify everything from tax cuts to Alaska oil drilling. |
Cheney brought my mother up to the casket, so she could pay her respects. She is in her 80's, and she has glaucoma and has trouble seeing. There were steps, and he left her there. He just stood there, letting her flounder. I don't think he's a mindful human being. That's probably the nicest way I can put it. |
Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians-wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. |
Every once in a while someone will make the mistake ... of invoking my father in some way that they have really no right to do. ... I'll tolerate it up to a point, but after a point it's like, I'm going to shut this down right now. |
He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out. |
He is home now. He is free. History will record his worth as a leader. We here have long since measured his worth as a man -- honest, compassionate, graceful, brave. He was the most plainly decent man you could ever hope to meet. |
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. |
I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline. |
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? |
I mow my own lawn. |
I think this makes more sense. We're moving in the right direction. |
I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way. |
I'm not really cut out to be a politician. You know that I sometimes don't know when to shut up. That could be a drawback. I'm an atheist. So there you go right there. I can't be elected to anything because polls all say that people won't elect an atheist... As we all know, that is something people won't accept. |
I'm OK with my own emotions, but other people's emotions just put me on the floor. |
If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight-it has put them in greater danger. |