My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

What would our lives be like if we could all be happy no matter what?

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.