People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional political and national circumstances. Because of such differences people fear they cannot live together.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants about people who are different has a history as old as our Nation.
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
A library to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
The stones themselves are thick with history and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
We need a better way to talk about eating animals a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits cravings family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
As a novelist I mined my history my family and my memory but in a very specific way. Writing fiction I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
If you have autism in the family history you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit space them out.
In the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 0 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back and rightly as the preparation in history for their faith.
Through history people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith too.
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong I am inclined to agree with him.
Religious belief like history itself is a story that is always unfolding always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.