I am an affirmative action hire.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.