And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger

There is no pure free-market economy.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

And I always say that to the children: “You are the greatest thing I ever did in my life!

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

You have heroes? No? what kind of feeling exist in you?

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

Art for me is the science of freedom.

He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them