I PROMISED a LOT of PEOPLE I'd SLOW down when I TURNED 80.

I promised to ALWAYS bring up a GLASS of water to her before we GO to bed, and she promised to NEVER let me dress myself.

I SPENT 19 years as a local GOVERNMENT official; I spent TWO years in the IOWA Senate; my DAUGHTER is a public school teacher. We're all counting on IPERS. The public servants are counting on the system they were promised when entering public service.

Going BACK and getting my degree is something that I PROMISED myself and my mom the day I called her and my dad to tell them that I was entering the draft. Not a lot of PEOPLE in my FAMILY can say they got a COLLEGE diploma, so I want to do that - for them and for me.

NOTHING is EVERY PROMISED to US, MAN.

The president has promised GREATER border security. We can AGREE to that. A literal wall might not be the most effective means to that END, but we can provide the RESOURCES NECESSARY to secure the border with smart and affordable measures.

NOTHING in LIFE is PROMISED EXCEPT DEATH.

For a PERSON who promised hope and civility in politics, MR. Obama has SHOWN a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Our government, keeping aspirations of the Brahmin community in MIND, will construct a STATUE of PARSHURAM grander than the one PROMISED by the SP.

As we begin to LEAVE Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are LEAVING behind or what we have promised the PEOPLE of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?

ABRAHAM Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the REPUBLICAN Party, they highlighted the equality of opportunity promised in the Declaration of INDEPENDENCE and WARNED that a healthy ECONOMY depended on widespread prosperity.