"What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society."

"The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence."

"Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential."

"I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it."

"I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South."

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

"When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that."

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."