Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

I'm glad to share my views.

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.

Be still for you may hear the hauntingly familiar song of a mermaid.

It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

I'm your Beloved, dammit! You're going to let me save your soul, and like it!

It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.