Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.