I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.

...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

My ex send late night text cause she don't know to let go

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

Even if I'm eating healthy, I let myself indulge with french fries. That's my favorite thing. You only live once!

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.