Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined examined reduced to essentials and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

In the grip of a neurological disorder I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

However if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence there can't be much to it.

Language is like money without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.