It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.