L.A. Paul Quotes

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

Firing employees, that's unfortunately part of doing business.

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.

Emotions are the color of the soul.

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.

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

Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.

God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.