"Bigotry That Hurts Our Military" in The Washington Post (14 May 2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301507.html.
Context: As a lifelong Republican who served in the Army in Germany, I believe it is critical that we review — and overturn — the ban on gay service in the military. I voted for "don't ask, don't tell." But much has changed since 1993.
My thinking shifted when I read that the military was firing translators because they are gay. According to the Government Accountability Office, more than 300 language experts have been fired under "don't ask, don't tell," including more than 50 who are fluent in Arabic. This when even Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently acknowledged the nation's "foreign language deficit" and how much our government needs Farsi and Arabic speakers. Is there a "straight" way to translate Arabic? Is there a "gay" Farsi? My God, we'd better start talking sense before it is too late. We need every able-bodied, smart patriot to help us win this war.
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015
“We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.”
Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake
"A General View of Mental Illness", p. 213
The Denial of Death (1973)
“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”
Source: Being Peace
“If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.”
Attributed to Bob Dole by Charlie Cook, "The Democrats' Wild Ride," Cook Political Report, (June 12, 2010)
“I feel that if any songs are gonna come out of World War III, we'd better start writing them now.”
Introduction to "So Long Mom (A Song For World War III)
That Was the Year That Was (1965)
“We'd better send
For God. He will remember and tell us all.”
Będę o to Pana Boga pytać,
On to wszystko zapisał, wszystko mnie opowie.
Part three, scene seven ("The Prisoner's Return"). Translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz and Burns Singer.
Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_fore.htm
Small Catechism http://www.ccel.org/ccel/luther/smallcat.text.i.5.html|The, The Fifth Commandment, (1529)
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
