Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

I sometimes wonder if life isn’t a giant mirror that reflects back at me everything I hold up to it.

What you fear reveals where you trust God the least

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.

I'd rather report to four million people as the elected Sheriff than some governor or president, so I like reporting to the people.

Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.