They (american press) always blame America first!

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.

I would write my tears, weeping out my pain - I would empty my veins for ink.

Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

People shouldn't find out how trashy I am.