And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war against terror are so anti-liberal that you would think it would be liberals leaping to protect the world from these monstrous ideologies.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.