TPP replicates similar language from past trade agreements that has allowed foreign corporations the right to challenge U.S. federal, state, and local laws outside of American courts. These tribunals will not meet our high standard of transparency and due process, and they will rely on weak impartiality rules for selecting judges.
The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past.
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
You can't let your past hold your future hostage.
In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has only launched ground raids in Yemen when the lives of hostages held by al Qaeda seemed at risk.
We should never remain hostages of our past.
I still miss qualities of Khmer life that are hard to quantify: the slow, sensual pace, the hovering presence of the past, the vast skies filled with terrifying and beautiful butts. And, of course, the food.
I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?
With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
