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“With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it”
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“There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.”
Source : "Sen. Dianne Feinstein talks national security; Sen. John Thune on Romney veepstakes". "Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. May 13, 2012.
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“Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.”
Source : R. H.Tawney (1998). “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”, p.226, Transaction Publishers
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“In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.”
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“I refuse to be pushed around anymore.”
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“If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.”
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“Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.”
Source : "Safe Haven Offered by Bahrain". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. March 19, 2003.
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“Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com