I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I raised four kids in six years.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

If something is truly important to you, you will find the time.

His manners are old-fashioned, the work of a vigilant mother.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.