I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be considerably more conservative on these issues, perhaps even than Governor Romney is, and I think that that will give Americans a clear set of choices about all issues, but about women's issues too.

Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.