Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.