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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

I'm very boring. I'm a mom. I'm 34 years old.

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.