I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.