Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.

In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.

You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.

Every sunrise gives you an opportunity to begin again.

Your character is your conduct.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

Violence often brings about momentary results.

Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.