In human rights and peacemaking, it’s really about having a solid concrete goal – the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world – and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved. John Prendergast Read Quote
Americans are guaranteed the constitutional right to legal abortion in Roe v. Wade, and it’s past time for Republicans to stop using the issue as a political football. In fact, it’s past time for Republican politicians to stop interfering in women’s personal lives, period. Kirsten Gillibrand Read Quote
I support a constitutional conversation, as the Labour Party does, which will allow New Zealanders to evolve a more mature and stable constitutional form, but that’s not something that I, as Labour Party, would want to impose, either on the party or on the public. David Cunliffe Read Quote
The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House. Mitch McConnell Read Quote
I used to hear all these guys on 78s at my mother’s when I was a teenager… I used to daydream that I was onstage playing the solos; I’m playing with B.B. King, and I’m playing with Lowell Fulsom, Jimmy McCracklin. And I literally ended up being in a band that backed them up at different clubs. Cynthia Robinson Read Quote
I’m pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body. Abbie Cornish Read Quote
Putin can’t afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power. Garry Kasparov Read Quote
I got joked on. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that. I was like, ‘OK, but I’m still gonna be successful, and you’re not.’ Khalid Read Quote
I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don’t. Margaret Cho Read Quote
