Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

Most Republicans and the business community extol the virtues of trade, depicting it as an engine of economic progress, while most Democrats and unions attack the exportation of American jobs, claiming that trade agreements are destroying our economy. ”

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor. ”

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. ”

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away. ”

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. ”

President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation. ”

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. ”

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour. ”

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood. ”

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not? ”