Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

Killing more people won't help matters.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

Anyone can talk,    but to listen is a gift,      we should all exchange

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

No matter what responses you get from your work, you have to be determined not to give up on your dreams!

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

It only hurts when I'm not laughing.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.