Great men unknown to their generation have their fame among the great who have preceded them and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails the people have the right to replace it. Well New York State government has failed and the people have the right indeed the people have the the people have the obligation to act.

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

Health care reform the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

Populism is not a style it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy government media and environment.