I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I raised four kids in six years.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S. That says something about a country. That's how incredible what we have is. But it can also take away incentive.

I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted. I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

Good days are upon us.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Very sorry to disappoint you, guys. It was not for my girlfriend but for Sachin Tendulkar.