There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

You're never really out of politics.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.