Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?

My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.

I know what you're thinking: why is Chris Rock bagging groceries? But I dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, so if I couldn't tell jokes this is exactly what I'd be doing.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.