Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here. After three years of working in the Russian court system our expectations were not particularly high.

Bush is now a definite drag on Republican candidates in the November 2006 elections in New Hampshire.

Coffee is a girl who never tells a boy no.

As a ?lame duck? president with low approval ratings, he?s not in a good position to sell this budget. The people in Congress can just wait him out.

When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind’s eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the...

Nothing unexpected happened today. After three years of working in the Russian court system, expectations were low.

The primary is something that’s going to be dominating the headlines for quite a while. It will be something that will be continually talked about and fresh in people’s minds.

A strong housing market should support confidence and provide some modest support to retail spending.

It was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words.

Making the tax cuts permanent is one thing I think he can push through. That feeds into job growth and his concept of an ownership society.

Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, “What can we beat the Russians at?” and if someone had cried “Backgammon!” at that point, Apollo would never have happened.

It wasn’t my best effort, but with a great field like this, getting third is alright. The field was really good, and the competition was tough.

I don’t know if boring is the right word to describe the coming year. But it’s not likely there will be anything controversial. It’s going to be a status quo kind of year. The Legislature...

We have always believed that dairy products and meat products should be inspected before sale, and dairy products should not only be inspected, but should be pasteurized.

I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.

Nobody ever gets sick of it there. Especially because of all the Minnesota boys on that team.

Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn’t, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing...

The first thing that’s needed is fatigue awareness training and there are a number of counter-measures available. What’s missing is a procedure for employers for selecting from this menu.

Unfortunately, I really don’t see much by way of the election in the fall.

Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.

You’re not going to stop the traffic backup.

Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It’s a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly...

Guidance needs to be more targeted to the specific action rather than general.

It’s an off budget year, so there is not as much going on in that regard. However, there may be a desire to spend some of the higher revenues that are coming in. It will...

We made this stupid rule and this stupid rule.Boys are not allowed to love each other.Then we painted a bison on the wall.

If you want to read a sad book, read Say You Love Me.

I saw you dead.

For safety-critical jobs we should be monitoring fatigue as much as alcohol. The difference is that alcohol is very easy to measure but fatigue is not.

Virginia enjoys an equal-to status with the federal government when it comes to meat inspection. Right now, Virginia runs the meat-inspection program because of that agreement. But if we were to allow the sale of...

There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.

It was cool. I’m going to tell all (my classmates) that I got to see Superman.

A world between my fingers.

A good legislator is someone who can get important legislation passed through the ability to marshal coalitions. It?s the ability to get working coalitions formed behind bills.

We’re reviewing the scope of what degree of confidentiality is necessary to protect the pueblos’ interest, but to also balance that with the need for the public to be allowed to know what’s going on...

You could never get everything in a book. Good books are always about everything.

Superman. Why else would I have his action figure?

But Jack doesn’t cry.Maybe.

I think primarily we’ve left our doors unlocked because it never occurred to us, generally, that this would happen. We live a rather casual life out here — rather too casual.

We still believe that dairy products sold should be pasteurized. We believe that to be the safest way to go. However, if the General Assembly seeks to add an exemption, we believe that, number one,...

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.

I think he’ll be awesome.

Not a very pretty world, is it?””Which one?

We feel like some of these environmental regulations being put on farmers are just too extreme.

Good books are about everything.

I think we can win state. But I always want to take first.

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there’s nothing sensible you can do with it.

You do have a huge wine industry that’s developing here, and I think that’s an example where I think it’s in America’s interests to actually define products in terms of the location in which they...

I am going to build something big for you.

One of my favorite places that we randomly drove to was New York, from Illinois. The drive was not as bad as we thought it would be, approximately 15 hours, and my friends and I...

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.