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

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.

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.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

I define my journey, I enjoy it too.

The obstacle in chain of nature does not occurs due of global warming, but by the destructive power of human's mind.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

All my life I've been looking for diversity

Referees are only human, I think.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.