in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.

Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.

His time's forever, everywhere his place.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.