Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

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.

How do I tell her that all I want to do is roll around on my bed?

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

You obey Wade Barrett's orders and you disrespect every person who has ever been champion. Including yourself.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.