The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.