I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.

Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.