Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and then won reelection: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and the most recent example, Bill Clinton.
Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.
The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.
My most defining moment was the death of my mother.
Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.
On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.
I'm have one of the most, if not the most, moderate voting records in Congress in the Florida delegation.
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.
Most critical histories of U.S. involvement in Iran rightly began with the joint British-U.S. coup against democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, which installed Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne. But it was Kissinger who, in 1972, greatly deepened the relationship between Washington and Tehran.
As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.
