I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.

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

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

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?

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the ‘possible, ’ while God is inviting me to the forefront of the ‘impossible.

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.

...it wasn't for the love of a man that she took those chances, but for the love of a horse.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.