I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

We can support our troops without supporting our president.

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

I'm like a woman scorned. I'm prepared to continue to kick their fanny until the last day I'm alive on this Earth because they have mistreated too many people.

Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics.

You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excitesyou and what scares you everyday, not bytrying to find your passion.

Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Corporations are not going to stash their money in the Cayman Islands. We are going to reinvest in America, create jobs, make education available to all.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

To every American, he [Donald Trump] is saying to them, "You elect me and we're going to fix the lawlessness at this border."

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'!