Unfortunately, being a woman in society means that sometimes you have to sort of quell what is instinctually broad and magnificent and magical about you.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

The art world doesn't exist in a vacuum.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down...

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.

I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

We are not a socialist nation. We are a compassionate nation.

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

There's people doing whatever the hell they want and getting away with it.

You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government...

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

As many people are offended by 'All In The Family' as those who like it.

As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my...

In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

Not a lot of men are super comfortable with very successful women.

Conservatives have to be more than just Liberals who are good at math.

It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to...

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives.

But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.