In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

I'm glad to share my views.

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

Clarity (always) trumps persuasion

The greatest victory is the one over oneself.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years.

I'll be damned, you got laid.