Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.