Pastoral Resources

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.

We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.

We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance.