The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

It's actually four, because the fifth state they get the advantage with a tie. It's literally four states out of 50, 57 if you're [Barack] Obama.

The nature of war is constant change.

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.