If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

(A smile) costs nothing, but creates much.

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.