The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

The business of government is justice.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, 'Faya!' That was a good day.

George Lopez does so much mugging, I'm surprised he's not up on charges.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

I grew up in Monaco, and in that environment going into the financial sector was the obvious choice.

There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.