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

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.

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.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home

Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Connection, the ability to feel connected, is neurobiologically wired, that’s why we’re here!

Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

Han?” “Yeah, sweetie.” “How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?” “I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.” “I’ll consider that.