"I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women in my life. That's very meaningful to me and you see it in my work. I write a lot about matriarchs and the pain of it, the beauty of it, the burden of it, the love of it."

“TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.”

Source : "Fred Friendly's Faith In The Constitution" by Nat Hentoff, www.washingtonpost.com. March 14, 1998.

“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”

Source : "The British System of Government". Book by Dilwyn Thomas, 1965.

“With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?”

Source : James Crawford (1992). “Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

“There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.”

“I think it's a big disservice to our country and to our democracy to continue to raise these doubts.”

“Never mistake legibility for communication.”

“I may make light of being a domestic terrorist, but if they can brand me a domestic terrorist and confiscate all my materials, and then expand into confiscating other people's materials, and then go after Gibson Guitars and so many other different people... they can go after you, they can go after everybody, we could all be "terrorists." That's really the big concern.”

Source : Source: www.wherestherage.com

“I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”

Source : "Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs, Volume 1". Book by Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, 1822; later quoted in Horatio Townsend "An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin" (p. 93), 1852.