"Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe."

“My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.”

“as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.”

Source : John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

“I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.”

“Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!”

“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.”

“Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.”

Source : Lawrence Kohlberg (1973). “Collected papers on moral development and moral education”

“The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.”

“We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.”