That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.