We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the constitution.

The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Now life is imitating art.

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.