When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

I wouldn't look pretty as a woman.

There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and first female prime minister of the Muslim world. All in one year! For her detractors, this wasn't good enough. She was unacceptable because she was a woman.