I can't really put it in one SENTENCE because although on one hand PREACHER is about FAITH and yes it is also about, I SUPPOSE, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

Sometimes we talk about MEMORY as though it's firm and fixed, but of COURSE, memory is HIGHLY fluid and subjective and thus highly SUBJECT to manipulation.

I think the BEST learning is done with active MANIPULATION. And we NEED to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

Much as Cold War nuclear strategists COULD argue about WINNING a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might SEE the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to RIDE out climate disruption and manipulation than, SAY, China or the countries of the Middle East.

I did not MAKE my disclosure about the DECEITFUL MANIPULATION of the U.N. before the invasion of IRAQ began in order to garner fame or FORTUNE.

You have to HAND it to America. It has exercised a quite CLINICAL manipulation of POWER worldwide while masquerading as a force for UNIVERSAL good.

Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the SCALE of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, MEANING that any manipulation would affect a pile of ASSETS about 100 TIMES the size of the United States federal budget.

The GENIUS of DAVID Petraeus has ALWAYS been his masterful MANIPULATION of the MEDIA.