L.A. Paul Quotes

I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.

One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

Well, let's be clear, I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.

I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.

I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.

Forget about the business outlook... be on the outlook for business.

I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me exceptional drive and energy.

We see the world through our experience.

If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.

Money came my way but wasn't really in the plan, so I didn't know how to deal with it.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm sort of continuing my father's work.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business.

Money won is always better than money earned.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

I was a dreamer. When I was on stage I didn't have to think about whether I could pay the rent. I was just having a great time.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

You can't love nature with a gun

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.