Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.
certainly the women's health part is something that I've become very interested in. It's not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected. . . what I'd always been interested in was education.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.
It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.
Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.
In order to deal with the issues we're going to take a thoughtful, considered, intelligent approach to moving forward, we're going to do it with a great deal of consultation. . . but to suggest you never change anything ever, ever, ever going forward I don't think is particularly responsible.
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.
I would say [to my father], "Why don't you actually take some courses in physics instead of saying [you are not believing in gravity]?" But he would never do it. Businessmen for some reason or other, think, because they're successful in a single direction, that they know everything. You know what I mean? You ever meet people like that?