"My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege."

“The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Rue McClanahan Plus News of Cook, Eder and Menzel". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 22, 2005.

“Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.”

“And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity - it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.”

“Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!”

“It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.”

“Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.”

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

Source : Common Sense (1776)

“It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.”

Source : "Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga". Book by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1999.