If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.

Never lend if you need repayment

It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

Who you are is not where you've been... You're still an innocent.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.