Barbara Quotes

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.

I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources

I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.

I'm a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.

The library is my cathedral.

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

When men change, maybe Bond will change.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

Bad movies are when people go oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.

There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.

The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.