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We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.