Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Good environmentalism is good economics

The Genesis of life is experience.

Simplicity of appearance can cause hindrance to success when you are poor. But the same simplicity is admired in a rich and successful person.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

My dad was a good competitor. I know he'd think I was a little off the charts.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.