When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Only You Can Change Your Life. No One Can Do It For You.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.