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" I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor. "

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" I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial. "

" In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. "

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" Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. "

" Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. "

" The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. "

" A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. "

" I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. "

" Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. "

" I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. "

" Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits. "

" Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium. "

" Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. "

" Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. "

" Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion. "

" I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. "

" Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. "

" The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. "

" Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. "

" American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. "

" I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. "

" Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. "

" Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. "

" My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. "

" Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys. "

" I guess I'm just a natural warrior. "

" Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. "

" My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them. "

" I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer. "

" Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! "

" Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. "