. . . there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.
Children are a battle of a different sort. . . . A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.
I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a human being grow inside your body and eventually turn into a human being, and then birth that human being, and then have them be separate from you. Those things are scary. It's also really, really scary to face the idea of losing a child and losing someone you love more than you've loved anything before. All of those things are innately really terrifying, and what it does to me is bring me to a direct kind of confrontation with my human vulnerability.