The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really really exciting and the statue still counts.
Nowadays many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored and worse neglected.
While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died not just those fallen in service to our country.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
My fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April Catholic Community Services and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.
The people that make this country work the people who pay on their mortgages the people getting up and going to work striving in this recession to not participate in it they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.
In reality serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
If you work hard and play by the rules this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is ladies and gentlemen. In this country you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
There is a vast world of work out there in this country where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
We had like a jolt of women in country and it seems like we're just kind of there now.
Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won if only the men had voted.
Men cannot count they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers Republican congressmen do to the country.
Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights including women's rights you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans all humans... starting with the president Mohammed Morsi and all officials and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.