If we’re going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can’t just conserve our way out; we can’t just drill our way out; we can’t bomb our way out. We’re going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we’re going to invent our way out, working together.
Old-Fashioned
I’m very old-fashioned – I don’t operate with an agenda. If you’re a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you’re doing but dispassionate about how you do it.
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
Whether I’m trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform – obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother’s hand making sure I was settled in bed.