There is no pure free-market economy.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.

No gentleman ever has any money.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.