In America, public opinion is the leader

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

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 accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Unity not uniformity must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated not annihilated not absorbed.

My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

I love New York. It's kind of perfect. I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.