In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Political technology determines political success.

Actions have consequences.

Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Read, mediate and speak the word of God into your mind, soul and spirit.

Set your end goal...the steps in between - is your path

And the cobwebs of timewould surrender, dormant, so that the rainbowsof new eras can emergeDespite the hollownessof you.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

I have had a career in public service.

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.