"And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team toward the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ."

“I'm a big supporter of immigration.”

Source : "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with Rick Henderson, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

“Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.”

“Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.”

Source : "A Conversation with Laurie David". Interview with Dorinda Elliot, www.cntraveler.com. November 19, 2007.

“The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.”

“Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.”

“I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.”

“White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.”

Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA

“America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.”