I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

I'm glad to share my views.

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.