Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Hospice means end of life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you dont pretend that you do and at some point you will.

I just didn't lock into being in the right role in the right big movie and it going huge. I did never really make the leap to hyperspace. Who's to say that it can't still happen. I just enjoy working, and feel fortunate to be doing the things that I am doing.

Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball.

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Relax. Let every moment be what it's going to be. What's meant to be will come your way, what's not will fade away.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

I like teaching. I would like to help out with the young catchers; be there for them and obviously, you know, what it takes to get here. That's the biggest thing, I think.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

I rocked the cradle of love.

I love to challenge myself.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. Its only after youve lost everything that youre free to do anything. Nothing is static everything is evolving everything is falling apart.

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth.

I saw the original that Gela Babluani wrote and directed called '13 Tzameti,' and that was very interesting. I believe it was a French film, and I was just intrigued by the awkwardness; the off-beatness of the film really just grasped me.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Dating is different when you get older. Youre not as trusting or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place.

Trust is only gained when one person risks and doesn't get harmed. It grows as both people increasingly risk and don't get harmed in the process.

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.