I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"
Don't throw away your conscience.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.
I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.
I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.