If we wander around as politicians JUMPING at EVERY shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of CONTEXT or ATTACKS layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.

I say VIOLENCE is NECESSARY. It is as American as CHERRY PIE.

I'm not really INVOLVED with POLITICS... I'm living in my cocoon with my CLASSICAL MUSIC around.

A LIBERAL education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the ACT of teaching.

I have little TASTE for fashionable dissipations, CARDS, and DANCING; the theatre and TEA parties are my aversion, and I LOOK with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

Poverty PLACES not just one or two OBSTACLES but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular DEVELOPMENT - cognitively, intellectually and EMOTIONALLY.

You can't WIN UNLESS you LEARN how to LOSE.

There are THREE critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in AMERICA: good public policy, grassroots ORGANIZING and electoral POLITICS.

Being funny is one of my greatest STRENGTHS. I can MAKE girls SMILE when they're down, and when they're having a good TIME, I can carry on the joke.

I started my entrepreneurial journey right out of COLLEGE. At the age of 21, I incorporated my first BUSINESS: a PR firm based in NEW York CITY.

When authorities WARN you of the sinfulness of SEX, there is an IMPORTANT LESSON to be LEARNED. Do not have sex with the authorities.

The NUMBER of people who will not go to a SHOW they do not want to SEE is unlimited.

Diets don't come into it. You need variety and to have a GOOD SOURCE of greens, protein, and nutrition. It is about HEALTH rather than LOOKING right.