I was going for the idea that a time can also be a location. You can revisit a time of year, in the same way you can go back to a house that you used to live in.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

The Sabbath day of rest establishes the reality that God's people live by God's grace and not by their own labors.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

If Canada, one of the richest nations in the world, can't meet Kyoto targets, why should China or India give any considerations for meeting the targets?

Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.

...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.

The things we should focus on in any life shouldn't be what we've lost, but what we've gained