"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."

"As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher."

"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism."

"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington."

"My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness."

"I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary."

"The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding."

"I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck."