Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.