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The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

The global embrace of the Chilean miners had as much to do with the state of the planet as it did the fate of the trapped men. Every year, thousands of miners are trapped and die. Hundreds more are rescued. The world's press has no shortage of global good-news stories. Heroes abound if reporters and editors take the time to search.

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.