The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.

I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.