Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
We all do better, when we all do better.
Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.
The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.