Increased revenues meaning higher taxes will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness when it was over I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Good breeding differs if at all from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us time and again?

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that knowing Him they still insist on going their own way.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love of kindness of understanding of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

An author is a fool who not content with boring those he lives with insists on boring future generations.

Those who insist on having hostilities with us kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh I don't get involved in politics ' as if that makes someone cleaner. No that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Clearly society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

As long as the G.O.P. led by its increasingly visible women continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests the gender gap won't go away.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

My children to the extent that they have found religion have found it from me in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing the rest is mere sheep-herding.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews you have to give value to the criticism.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.