Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.