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

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.

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

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.

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.

The desire to belong is in every mind.The desire to get lost in love is in every heart.

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.

The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.