We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible.
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
Radio is the death and life of Africa.
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own. '
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.