When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

Freedom involves a knowledge of choices. This alone is reason enough to get an education.

Well, how do you want me to measure it, ... On a scale of one to 10, we were a zero.

[Calling the measure a] serious provocation, ... restricts Taiwan's freedom and democracy, and has a serious impact on security in the East-Asia region.

It was a great quarter by any measure. We did not have significant one-time effects as we did throughout the year last year.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.