Guantanamo Bay is a first-rate detention facility that's kept terrorists off the battlefield and kept America safe. It's critical role in our national security cannot be overstated.
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
Terrorist groups and their extremist state sponsors cannot be fought with kid gloves and flowery words of persuasion. As the U.S. has displayed in Afghanistan and in Iraq, only a vigilant and determined campaign of confrontation can deter and obstruct them.
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
One of the things that we have to realize is we cannot get off gas, we cannot get off oil, fossil fuels tomorrow - it's going to take a few decades. Maybe we can shorten it, but there's going to have to be a transition time.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
I cannot afford to watch Fox News.
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
