The mechanics vary from place to place and from office to office. The handling of SBUs can be different in the same agency just across the hall, one from another. There are virtually no standards.

...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug.

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

It will be important to restore those provisions, those disclose provisions, those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information and papers are made public.

The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government.

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

Each day we do the best we can, and then tomorrow we try again!

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains if we will only stop the waste and the idle useless regretting.

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.