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

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.

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

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.

A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick! It makes me tired.