We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

There is no pure free-market economy.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Courage is caution overcome.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.

I'll stick to painting as long as I can.