The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!

There are a thousand no's for every yes.

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.

I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.