If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement but I believe it to be true.

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly if not explicitly systematic theory in this sense.

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and not least a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning God.'

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

A discerning eye needs only a hint and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage I think that lead us from an innocent world of contentment drunkenness and good humor to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity no humor no overstatement can quite extinguish the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history someone's statement and ideas of life.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are rather of the nature of universals whereas those of history are singulars.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

I must analyze from what I do now what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

To get nostalgic about other people's music or even about your own makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

The day I made that statement about the inventing the internet I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Before I refuse to take your questions I have an opening statement.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band I will personally or with my fans' help greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

I think that's become passe but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it then that's a noble project.

Well my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.