Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

If it was all about the destination, we'd spend our nights sleeping in graves.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

I really love both acting and singing equally.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

My voice is not so much 'bel canto' as 'can belto'.

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.