I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.